The Chancellor presides over cabinet meetings as first among equals without decisional authority, regardless of his right of proposal concerning the appointment of the government's members by the President. When formally convened as such, the government is termed the Council of Ministers ( German: Ministerrat), which is equivalent to the word " cabinet".
The government is convened for frequently scheduled meetings. Meetings Cabinet room in the Austrian Chancellery If this occurs, a new government must then be formed by the parties that control parliament. Likewise, the President may dismiss the Chancellor and/or the whole government at any time. Ministers are proposed for nomination by the Chancellor, though the President is permitted to withhold his or her approval. In practice, the leader of the strongest political party, who ran as a "chancellor candidate" in a parliamentary election, is usually asked to become Federal Chancellor, though there have been some exceptions. As the Federal Government must maintain the confidence of parliament, the President must generally abide by the will of that body in his or her appointments. Since the 1929 reform of the Austrian Constitution, all members of the Federal Government are appointed by the Austrian Federal President.
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