Hello everyone and welcome again to my options on how to make Liberland even better. This time I will be discussing how the ministries of Liberland need to managed. In my recent interview with President Vit he told me how when he got into politics in Czechia he wanted to make Czechia more like Switzerland in several different ways including their tax policy and lower taxes to name a few. That idea struck with me as I am myself have imagined how would the USA look like if it were more like Switzerland. US founding fathers Edmond Randolph and George Mason, both of whom later became known as antifederalists proposed the Virginia Plan which among other things structured a multi person executive office they feared that a single executive would breed a monarchy and that the person would do whatever they could to gain more power. If they saw what the Swiss were to do in fifty years time maybe they would have agreed to it.
This is one of the many things that I admire about the way the Swiss conduct their government in the Swiss Federal Council. The federal council is chaired by the president who is considered “first among equals” in that all seven members are equal to each other the president is merely the title given to the person who is the chairperson of the federal council for that year and rotates so that each person is given the honor in their term of office. They each are also responsible for a specific department of the Swiss government as well.
Because Liberland is so small in population I think a triumvirate would be suitable. There are a few different scenarios I have in mind in how this could be implemented if the people and the government of Liberland wish to move in that direction. All members of the presidents council shall serve a term of 3 years with one of them being elected annually at the same time as the Congress election term for January with the term to commence on January 1. The council shall choose their president annually and it shall rotate so that each person is the president once in their term.
Scenario 1, if the Senate is to stay in place the senators shall elect one of their own members for each seat.
Scenario 2, if there is no Senate then in this scenario the Congress shall elect the members of the council.
Scenario 3, no Senate again but the people of Liberland directly elect the members in this scenario.
In scenarios 2 and 3 a person cannot be a member of Congress, or of the judiciary during their term in scenario 1 the same applies but this would be stipulated in other documentation like my proposed Congress Law.
I am not saying that Liberland needs to move toward an executive council like Switzerland but what the president said to me about his attempts to reform Czechia in the way of the Swiss made me think that something like this should at least be debated and considered as Liberland prepares to vote on it’s new constitution which is to be presented in just a month from the time of publishing.