Prime Minister's Questions (or similar) in your nation

[Bengalai]

Does your nation have a system of Prime Minister's Questions (where the ruling Prime Minister/President/whatever you call your leader has to answer questions posed by members of your national legislature.

In our nation, the Chamber of National Councillors gets the right to ask questions for 30 minutes per week on a Wednesday. This is only a "rubber-stamp" measure, as the President doesn't normally keep any promises he makes. The Questions have to be first written out and provided to the President of the Chamber, who will then sort the Questions into the Order for the Day. Only persons mentioned on the Business Papers in a specified order will be permitted to ask the question

What about in your nation???

OOC: Charlotte Ryberg can elaborate on what PMQs are

[Ahi Maunga]

Question Time is aired on TV in Ahi Maunga at 2 PM on Wednesdays. The questions are for any minister of government including the Prime Minister. If they are directed towards an specific minister they must be in his/her area of expertise (don't ask the minister of finance about the stat of agriculture), and lasts between an hour to two, though it remains on TV until all questions have been answered.

[H-Alba]

PMQ is aired on Thursday afternoons here in H-Alba. It is aired for an hour, and afterwards MQ (Ministers questions) is aired for thirty minutes. This allows people to ask the government what they plan on doing.

(OOC: Prime Minister's Questions actually is UK specific, outside of the UK it is known as Question Time)

[Beldonia]

Kingly Moments is a live television program airing at the 9:00 p.m. timeslot on Beldonian Boradcasting Channel. The king gives a speech lasting about ten minutes, which is followed by fifty minutes of free question time. The questions may be directed at the king, the prime minister or any cabinet member.

[ArghNeedAName]

Yes we do. The Prime Minister comes before the National Assembly every Wednesday at 11:00am to answer questions from MPs for half an hour. It's a useful way of keeping the Prime Minister on the ball - but it also makes the job particularly stressful. It is broadcast live on FTV Parliament One.

The President (our system is semi-presidential) has occassionally held Question Time sessions with the Senate, such as at the time when Gordon Walker decided to intervene in the Borogravian War, and during the Alvinas War in 1984. These were broadcast live on FTV Parliament Two.

Each party leader gets to ask the Prime Minister two questions. This is followed by random questions from the backbenchers. These questions are normally written out in paper beforehand and placed in a jar on the Speaker's desk, with the name of the MP who wants to ask it. The Speaker then picks a random slip out of the jar and asks the MP to stand up and say their question.

[Seperate Vermont]

No, the President is not compelled to answer questions before the Vermont General Assembly unless he is subpoenaed to testify. The only official time when the President is involved in official matters and assemblies of the Vermont General Assembly is, if he so chooses, the State of the Republic speech or any other times the President gets permission from the Majority Leader to speak before the assembly.

The President has been known, however, to take part in online as well as personal town halls, as well as in direct addresses to the Vermontian people, which are an alternative audience for the State of the Republic speech, with the requirement a written copy be sent to the Assembly.

It's also worthy to note the President has no connection nor enacted official powers over the Legislature at all, as Chief Executive.

[The Matthew Islands]

Prime Ministers Questions are aired every Friday at 6:00 PM on TV.

Questions are submitted to the Speaker of the House who then decides on 20 questions to be asked by an equal amount of MP's from all parties. Then, he calls on them to ask their question.

[Maraque]

No, the King isn't compelled to answer questions from the National Assembly. He is, however, a guest on the TBC News program Talking Points every Wednesday and Thursday in which he fields questions from audience members, callers, E-mailers, and tweets for an hour.

[Sovereign Spirits]

No such thing on the national level as there is no one to ask those questions to. However, practically all communities have such things. Not as some sort of arbitrary set-up system, but simply because if the community has a leader, he/she/it also lives in it and is easily accessed and seen in daily activities.

[The Planet Carpathia]

The President has to attend full meetings of General Council (held once or twice a month, generally), part of which is a two hour period where councillors are able to put their questions to the President, who is required to answer them. Due to General Council consisting of only 15 members at present, he is required to provide some fairly in depth answers. All such sessions are shown on all public screens throughout Forthaven live as they occur.

[Seperate Vermont]

To add, the President often appears on several news shows, whether in person or via video conference, where he responds to questions from the people or debates issues in a round table, which is likely the closest thing to this in Vermont.

[Cookesland]

No, we don't have any sort of question time.

[Saurisisia]

No, none of the members of the Triad have any time for questions and all that nonsense.

[Allicante]

Every Monday the Consul adresses the Covenant Assembly at 9:30pm, where Assemblymen may ask questions to the Consul. Any Assemblyman may ask a question, so the length varies each week.

[Valcluse]

Our Prime Minister does not answer questions from MP's themselves whilst in Parliament. However, he does appear on the current affair's show La Nation Aujord'hui, where he fields questions from political commentators and journalists. The President does a similar thing as well.

[The Sovereign Hawaiian Islands]

In Hawaii, it is called the Executive Reply. The Executive Reply is held in the chambers of the House of Representatives. The members of the House of Representatives, and on rare joint sessions, the Senate, are given the opportunity to ask questions to the President (or the senior member of the President's party in the House upon the President's absence). The senior member of the largest opposing party has the opportunity to ask up to ten questions and is given priority to go first. The President must answer all questions in whatever way he or she should choose, but, must do so within the provisions of House rules. Members are not allowed to yell, or personally attack the President. The same rules applies to the President towards members of the House. Executive Reply lasts no longer than thirty minutes. The President may request an extension of no more than an additional thirty minutes to allow more questions. Executive Reply is aired LIVE every Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. on OLELO, the government broadcast network, and on CBS-Hawaii (KGMB).

Currently, the President is Adam G. Makahanaloa. In his absence, the Leader of the Opposition - Rep. Catherine DeSa (Rep.) answers all questions from members of the Majority. The Leader of the House Alex D. Harris (Dem.) goes first and asks up to ten questions.

[Central Lothian]

We have Prime Minister's Questions at 12pm every Wednesday when Parliament is in session (if she's unavailable, the Deputy PM usually fills in for her). Questions have to be submitted by 6pm the day before and are chosen by the Speaker of the House. If it's a question about a particular field (e.g. education), then it's delegated to the relevant person.

[Malgrave]

PMQ's is on every Tuesday in the Malgravean Parliament.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Prime Minister's Questions is a parliamentary session where our one thousand MPs pose questions and challenge the policies of our current Prime Minister, Sayeeda Wachi. It takes place every Wednesday outside recess.

[Genyria]

A half-hour session of Questions to the General Chairman in the House of Commons occurs on Monday before the commencement of parliamentary business. On every other day, the General Chairman attends what technically amounts to another session of QGC, but consists of only one question. Here is a sample of his response to that question, taken from the Offical Report.

Question to the General Chairman.
The General Chairman was asked:—

Mr. Edmund Fairbourne (Auchterblen): 50241. To give a statement on his business, responsibilities and duties to-day, both in and beyond this House.

Mr. Alexander Sergeant (Chairman of the General Council): Mister Speaker, to-day I will meet with ministerial colleagues and representatives of relevant groups to discuss the future of my Government's policy concerning safety in rail transport. After lunch, I will have other such meetings with colleagues and others on other matters.

[Vallermoore]

Only once a year can the people freely question their monarch without fear of getting into trouble and they have from noon until the sun has set to do it.

[Khodoristan]

National Inquiries is held every Monday at 8pm, Mezhdet time. For an hour, any citizen can ask the President/Vice President/etc. their plans for running the country in the future.

[Zeppy]

By constitutional convention, the President cannot enter the Congressional Palace unless the President is invited by the Congress. The President alone is invited by Congress in order to by provide information in the State of the Federation speech at the opening of the regular session of Congress each year, as demanded by Article II, Section 3, Clause A of the Federal Constitution of Zeppy.

Every three months (must be held quarterly in the regular session of the Congress), the Vice-President with the aid of the Cabinet must appear on behalf of the President before the Congress in Question Time to answer Question of the Congress pertaining to legislative manners, as demanded by Article II, Section 3, Clause B of the Federal Constitution of Zeppy. The Vice-President is allowed to enter the Congress, as the Vice-President is nominated by the President and appointed by the Congress as the "liaison" between each other.

The Vice-President is mandated to answer 12 Questions by each Chambers of the Congress. 10 Questions will be apportioned by party membership in each Chamber and their Question will be chosen by the Leader of the Party in such Chamber from the Questions introduced by Members of the Congress of their Party in that Chamber. 2 Questions will be given to each Chamber to be chosen randomly by the Chancellor of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives from a pool of Questions introduced by the Members of the Congress. The Chancellor of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives will always ask their Questions before any other Question by a Member of the Congress.

Also, Article II, Section 3, Clause C of the Federal Constitution of Zeppy allows Members of the Cabinet to appear before the Congress to answer Questions of their Department of the Federal Republic, with permission of the President.

In the several Cantons, the Premier's Questions is held in the Parliaments of the several Canton every Wednesday for 30 minutes when the Premier and the Ministries of the several Cantons will answers Questions from the various Members of the Parliaments of the several Cantons.

[Greater Rhodes]

Besides the specific question and answer segments of news conferences and other prime ministerial addresses, Parliament holds a Question Time for 30 minutes each day in the National Assembly, where questions may be posed by any Member of the Assembly to any Minister in the Royal Council (including the Prime Minister, who, due to our parliamentary form of government, sits in the National Assembly), or, less commonly, to any other Assemblyman. This period usually begins with a question from the Leader of the Opposition, currently Dr. Alexandre Descartes of the Liberal Democratic Alliance. Members must talk one at a time, with each question being a maximum of 30 seconds long, and answers given up to one minute. These rules are regulated quite strictly by the President of the National Assembly. Questions may be asked or answered in either English, French or Italian, and all three are used almost equally within Parliament.

For the most part the King does not engage with Parliament, and is not required to participate in any question and answer sessions he has not already previously agreed to.

[Alphabetum]

Every Friday, at 8pm, the Prime Minister addresses the Prince's Council and the House of the People. He or she discusses the business of the previous week. He or she then takes questions, which have been written up by Members of the House and handed to the Princes of the Prince's Council. The Princes then pick 2 questions from Members of the House from their City-State and read them to the Prime Minister, who can choose weather or not to answer that question. The address lasts for exactly one hour and the current Prime Minister has been known to stop the moment the hour clock is up.