[Austria] The Federal Council (German: Bundesrat (pron) is the second chamber of the Austrian Parliament, representing the nine States of Austria (Bundesländer) on federal level. As part of a bicameral legislature alongside of the National Council (Nationalrat), it can be compared with an upper house or a senate. In fact, however, it is fa...
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[Switzerland] (Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova also pictured) |formation = 1848 |inaugural = Ulrich Ochsenbein The Federal Council is the seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of Switzerland and serves as the Swiss collective head of state. While the entire council is responsible for leading the federal ...
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(from the article `Switzerland`) ...for four-year terms, and the Council of States, in which each canton is represented by two deputies and each demicanton by one deputy (46 deputies ... The Swiss executive is unique, having neither an elected presidency nor a cabinet responsible to the parliament. The executive is a Federal Council ......
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