!!!Interpellationsrecht

Interpellation, Right of, means of political control exercised by 
legislative organs over the executive branch. The Nationalrat and 
Bundesrat have the power to check the activities of the federal 
government, to question its members (chancellor, vice chancellor, 
other federal ministers) about all matters of execution and demand all 
the relevant information. A special form of this "classic" right is 
the urgent interpellation, which has to be dealt with in the same 
sitting of the representative body in question. Other forms in which 
this right can be exercised are question time and "debates on matters 
of topical interest".  Accordingly each deputy of the Nationalrat and 
each member of the Bundesrat is able to make brief oral enquiries with 
the members of the federal government during the sitting of the 
representative. body The Landtage have similar rights of political 
control.

!Literature
R. Walter and H. Mayer, Grundriss des oesterreichischen 
Bundesverfassungsrechts, %%sup 7/%1992.


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