Political Responsibility of the Government in the Member States of the European Union Legal Sciences 9 Research and Science Today 2015

9 Res. & Sci. Today 137 (2015)
Political Responsibility of the Government in the Member States of the European Union

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March 2015

POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT IN
THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Sevastian BLENDEA'

ABSTRACT:
ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT
IN MOST COUNTRIES IS MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY. ACCORDING TO LITERATURE, MINISTERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY REFERS, ON THE ONE HAND, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MINISTERS TO
PARLIAMENT AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY ASSUMED EXERCISE OF
MINISTERIAL POSITIONS. USUALLY, WE DEAL WITH TWO TYPES OF MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
POLITICAL AND LEGAL (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL). IF POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY COMES AS A RESULT
OF POLITICAL INTERESTS WITHOUT THE WORK OF A MINISTER TO CONFLICT WITH THE TEXT OF
THE LAW, THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO OPERATE AS A MINISTER COMMIT CRIMINAL OFFENSES
OR ANY DAMAGE.
KEYWORDS: MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY, CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY,
PARLIAMENTARY REPUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC, SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC.

1. INTRODUCTION
Ministerial responsibility have different features, depending on the rules enshrined in
the fundamental law of a State (parliamentary, presidential or semi-presidential). Reported to
the ministerial, parliamentary regime has at least two essential characteristics: a) a two-
headed executive, represented by the president, who does not respond in political and
Government, which is accountable to Parliament; b) close cooperation between the legislative
and executive (right guaranteed by the president to dissolve the parliament and government
obligation to resign if he loses the confidence of Parliament). While the government is a key
element in this regime ministers - both individually and collectively - are politically
accountable to Parliament or Parliament's initiative (interpellation, vote of no confidence or
no-confidence motion) or the executive initiative itself (by calling the vote the confidence of
Parliament). In both variants, adopting a no-confidence vote attract obligation of the
Government to resign. However, the president has the right to dissolve Parliament.
As presidential regime, we note that in this regime there is the institution of
ministerial responsibility, members of the executive are appointed and dismissed by the
President without the intervention of Parliament. Ministers responsible only to the President

1 Associate professor of the University Constantin Brancusi from Tg-Jiu, ROMANIA
E-mail: sebib2005 @yahoo.com

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