Shadow cabinet

The shadow cabinet or shadow ministry is a feature of the Westminster system of government. It consists of a senior group of opposition spokespeople who, under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition, form an alternative cabinet to that of the government, and whose members shadow or mirror the positions of each individual member of the Cabinet.[1] Their areas of responsibility, in parallel with the ruling party's ministries, may be referred to as a shadow portfolio.[2] Members of a shadow cabinet have no executive power. It is the shadow cabinet's responsibility to scrutinise the policies and actions of the government, as well as to offer alternative policies. The shadow cabinet makes up the majority of the Official Opposition frontbench, as part of frontbenchers to the parliament.[3] Smaller opposition parties in Britain and Ireland have Frontbench Teams.[4]

In many countries, a member of the shadow cabinet is referred to as a shadow minister. In the United Kingdom's House of Lords and in New Zealand, the term spokesperson is used instead of shadow.[5] In Canada, the term opposition critic is also used.[6][7]

Description and functions

The shadow ministers' duties may give them considerable prominence in the party caucus hierarchy especially if it is a high-profile portfolio. Although the salary and benefits paid from the public treasury to shadow ministers remain the same as for a backbencher—they have no executive responsibilities, unlike cabinet ministers—some opposition parties provide an additional stipend in addition to the salary they receive as legislators while many at least reimburse shadow ministers for any additional expenses incurred that are not otherwise eligible for reimbursement out of public funds. Moreover, in most Westminster-style legislative bodies all recognised parliamentary parties are granted a block of public funding to help their elected members carry out their duties, often in addition to the budgets individual legislators receive to pay for constituency offices and other such expenses. There is typically a stipulation that such funds must be used for official parliamentary business; however, within that restriction, parties can usually distribute the funds among their elected lawmakers as they see fit and thereby provide the money needed to staff and support shadow ministries.[citation needed]

Members of a shadow cabinet may not necessarily be appointed to the corresponding Cabinet post if and when their party forms a government, assuming that they retain their seats which by convention is usually considered a prerequisite to serve in the cabinet. However, the consistency with which parties assuming power appoint shadow ministers into the actual roles in government varies widely depending on such things as jurisdiction, the traditions and practices of the party assuming government, the exact circumstances surrounding their assumption of power and even the importance of the cabinet post in question.[citation needed]

As well as being potential future ministers, some shadow ministers have held ministerial posts in the past.[2]

As a mark of discipline, shadow ministers are expected to speak within and not outside their portfolio areas.[8]

Cultural applications

In the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, the major opposition party and specifically its shadow cabinet is called His (or Her) Majesty's Loyal Opposition.[9] The adjective loyal is used because, while the role of the opposition is to oppose His Majesty's Government, it does not dispute the sovereign's right to the throne and therefore the legitimacy of the government. However, in other countries that use the Westminster system, the opposition is known simply as the parliamentary opposition.[10]

In most Westminster systems, the leader of the opposition heads the shadow cabinet in person and directly shadows the prime minister, and the title of "shadow prime minister" is generally not used. Non-Westminster systems that have adopted a shadow cabinet system, however, typically designate its head as "shadow prime minister".[11][12] Moreover, in these systems, the shadow prime minister is not necessarily coterminous with the leader of the opposition party (for example, in Czechia, ANO 2011 party leader Andrej Babiš designated Karel Havlíček as the party's shadow prime minister[12]) and is not necessarily expected to become prime minister if the opposition party assumes power.[11]

Some parliamentary parties, notably the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a party room ballot, with the shadow prime minister then allocating portfolios to the shadow ministers.[13] In other parliamentary parties, the membership and composition of the shadow cabinet is generally determined solely by the shadow prime minister.[citation needed]

A related term is the shadow budget, which is often prepared by shadow cabinets (and, when released, usually presented by the shadow finance minister or equivalent) as an alternative to the real budget presented by the government. When prepared and released in an election year, an opposition party's shadow budget will typically form a key part of the party's manifesto, and will be largely if not wholly implemented if the opposition party subsequently forms a government (especially if it wins an outright majority).[citation needed]

Third parties

In many jurisdictions, third parties (who are neither participant in the government nor in the official opposition) may also form their own parliamentary front benches of spokespersons; however, parliamentary standing orders on the right of parties to speak often dictate that it can only be granted to a party or group if a minimum number of members can be recorded by the party. In Ireland, for example, technical groups are often formed by third parties and independent TDs in the Dáil Éireann in order to increase the members' right to speak against larger parties which can afford the right to speak as front benches in government or opposition.[14][15]

Opposition parliamentary parties which are sufficiently small that they are about the same size as the government cabinet will often appoint all of their elected members to their shadow cabinet or equivalent, with third parties more likely compared to official opposition parties to use this sort of arrangement. If the parliamentary party is only slightly larger than the government's cabinet, its leadership potentially faces the awkward position of embarrassing a small minority of legislators by singling them out for exclusion from the shadow cabinet. On the other hand, incoming governments in the Westminster system often change the number and/or composition of ministries upon assuming office. Therefore, one solution to such an aforementioned issue when it occurs is to create nominal shadow "ministries" that correspond to currently nonexistent cabinet posts the party actually intends to create once in government. An opposition party can also employ this process in reverse by "merging" its shadow ministries to correspond to actual cabinet posts the opposition party wants to merge or otherwise eliminate.[citation needed]

Use outside English-speaking countries

While the practice of parliamentary shadow cabinets or frontbenches is not widespread in Germany, party leaders have often formed boards of experts and advisors ("teams of experts", or Kompetenzteam, in CDU/CSU and SPD parlance; alternate "top team", or Spitzenteam, in Bündnis '90/Die Grünen parlance).

In France, although the formation of a shadow cabinet is not compulsory or common, several shadow cabinets have been formed.

In Hungary, a shadow cabinet under the leadership of Klára Dobrev was established by the strongest opposition party, the Democratic Coalition, for the first time, in 2022.[16]

In Japan, the term "Next Cabinet" was coined for the de facto shadow cabinet, though it has only been used by the Democratic Party of Japan and its successors.[citation needed]

By country

Australia
The Bahamas
Cameroon

SDF Shadow Cabinet

Canada
Ontario
France
Hungary
Iran
Israel
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Lithuania
Malaysia
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Serbia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sudan
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Scotland
Wales

See also

References

  1. ^ "Shadow Cabinet: Glossary". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b Yussuf, Ahmed (18 October 2013). "Shorten to announce Labor frontbench portfolios today". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Ministers and shadow ministers". Parliamentary Education Office. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  4. ^ "SNP announces frontbench reshuffle at Westminster". BBC News. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  5. ^ Graham-McLay, Charlotte (2 September 2022). "New Zealand's shadow foreign affairs spokesperson faces criticism for response to UN report on Uyghurs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Opposition critics". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Shadow Cabinet". Secure the Future. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Lib backbencher tells of Cabinet leak by senior MP". The Canberra Times. Vol. 70, no. 21, 755. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 November 1994. p. 4. Retrieved 13 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ Mary Durkin; Oonagh Gay (21 June 2006). "Her Majesty's Opposition, SN/PC/3910" (PDF). Commons Standard Notes. Library of the House of Commons, UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 September 2012. This note outlines the rights and privileges of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, or the Official Opposition, as the party with the second largest number of seats within the House of Commons is known.
  10. ^ Manhire, Toby; Pinner, Philip (19 December 2011). "NZ election 2011: the aftermath". New Zealand Listener. APN News & Media. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  11. ^ a b ""Valstiečiai" pristatė šešėlinę Vyriausybę: Jai vadovaus R.Karbauskis, S.Skvernelio tarp alternatyvių ministrų nėra".
  12. ^ a b "Babiš povede ANO v pozadí, vidět budou Schillerová a šéf stínové vlády Havlíček". 8 February 2023.
  13. ^ Joel Bateman. "In the Shadows: The Shadow Cabinet in Australia" (PDF). Parliament of Australia: Department of Parliamentary Services. Retrieved 22 September 2012. ISBN 978-0-9806554-0-7
  14. ^ McGee, Harry (11 January 2012). "Technical group makes voice heard and gives bigger parties run for their money". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  15. ^ "TDs agree to form Dáil technical group". The Irish Times. 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  16. ^ Árnyékkormányt alakít Dobrev KláraTelex.hu, 16 September 2022
  17. ^ "TS-LKD patvirtino šešėlinės Vyriausybės kabinetą". Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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