#10 The future cabinet

At some point during the election campaign, parties present their cabinet. This is a group of candidates put forward by the respective party who, if they win the election, will take over the government posts in the cabinet.

The idea of the future cabinet is based on this. Those active in the field of extracurricular political education can design this together with their addressees. However, the focus should not be on personnel decisions, but rather on the structure of the executive. Questions that can be explored here are, for example What competencies should our future government combine? Or do we even need innovative formats of governance? Should ministries be restructured? Or do we need completely new ones?

Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is also conceivable to negotiate very specific questions on pandemic management. After all, the structure of current crisis management, with the Federal-State Conference as the central decision-making body, has repeatedly been the subject of criticism from very different contexts. So do we perhaps need posts or forums for crisis management that do not yet exist? Or is a restructuring of existing capacities sufficient? As can be clearly seen here, the question of the cabinet of the future does not necessarily have to be limited exclusively to the question of a future cabinet in the narrow sense, but can be considered much more broadly.

This approach sometimes makes basic convictions about ideas of politics, forms of government and the exercise of power visible and open to discussion.