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A news item involving Christian Wulff was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 17 February 2012.

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Minister / President 2

Historically a Prime Minister is leader of a cabinet in a monarchy while the monarch is the head of the executive and the government himself (the cabinet ist part of the state or crown council which is presided by the monarch)!

A German Minister-president is not only head of the government as he holds either the function of a head of state (that fact is to be seen in three privileges: confering orders and decorations, holding the right of pardon and clemence, and the internal and external representing of the state)

A German Minister-president is not a primus inter pares in the council of ministers but its leader

There is no original English term for a German Ministerpräsident, but the word is intranslatable. Consequently a neologism must be formed and used. It is absolutely normal to compose new words. So a German Ministerpräsident will be an English Minister President, because it is not the same as a Prime Minister.

compare The German Federal Council is not the Upper House of Parliament, because there is no hierarchy between both chambers of the German Federal Parliament! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.4.103.180 (talk) 22:08, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ministerpräsident is translatable. The correct translation is governor. A governor (like in US states) is head of state and head of government.

There is no need to create a new word. The article should be amended accordingly. 2A02:908:112:1A21:E0D7:51C6:B3DE:760B (talk) 00:40, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]