Government
Ministries
A disciplined government rests on a disciplined structure: twelve ministries, no more — built on subsidiarity, so that the centre does only what only the centre can do, and everything else is left to communities and localities.
Why fewer ministries?
Ministries have multiplied to satisfy coalitions, not to serve the public. Overlapping mandates blur responsibility and invite capture. A fixed, lean structure of twelve restores clarity: each ministry has a real domain, and each can be held to account for it.
Subsidiarity
Every decision belongs at the lowest level capable of making it well. What a family, a community, or a local authority can do, the state should not. The central government takes up only what genuinely requires a national hand — and leaves the rest closer to the people.
The disciplined cabinet
Fewer, stronger ministries mean less duplication, fewer turf wars, and faster, clearer decisions. A small cabinet can actually be governed; a sprawling one governs no one. Discipline of structure is the precondition of discipline in policy.
Why structure matters
Structure shapes behaviour. A government built for bargaining produces bargaining; a government built for service can produce service. Reducing and fixing the ministries is not cosmetic — it changes what the state is able and likely to do.
Relationship with federal government
The ministries are the executive arm of the thin federal floor. They carry the centre’s narrow, universal responsibilities; the breadth of life — culture, faith, education, welfare within communities — belongs to the communities and the Council of the People, not to them.
The twelve ministries
- 01Prime Minister’s Office
- 02Interior
- 03Defence
- 04Justice
- 05Education, Science and Innovation
- 06Culture, Arts and Heritage
- 07Health and Welfare
- 08Finance
- 09Infrastructure, Transport and Environment
- 10Economy and Industry
- 11Agriculture
- 12Foreign Affairs