독일연방대통령의 예비권한

Reserve Power of the Federal President

In the Constitution of the Germany, the federal president holds a position as a ceremonial figurehead. He is a symbolic existence to the country and a figure that preserves a unity. It could be judged as a character of the important systems of the parliamentary government. Under the parliamentary government, even though the federal president doesn t have substantial authority, he becomes a promoter who forms an essential glue to induce national unification and to disentangle a complicated matter externally and domestically at the crucial moment of the country, and the like. The substantial authority belongs to federal prime minister, but the federal president has a position as formal symbolic government organs before everything else in the Federal Republic of Germany which has adopted the parliamentary government. The federal president is what is called a neutral administrative machinery of a state. Because the authority which is not provided for in the law belongs to the federal president and there is a possibility to exercise his influence politically according to how to use it, the questions such as Does the federal president only has a ceremonial authority as a symbolic existence? or Is the federal president a representative or a politician? could be raise.