deelministers
Deelministers is a term used in Dutch-language political science and journalism to refer to ministers who are assigned responsibility for a sub-portion of a ministry’s portfolio. The concept describes a form of portfolio sharing or division within a single ministry, where one or more ministers oversee specific subareas while another minister holds the overall leadership or additional subareas. The arrangement aims to provide focused leadership for particular policy domains that fall under the ministry’s remit.
In practice, deelministers may operate under the authority of a senior minister or minister without a full
Deelministers are distinct from ministers without portfolio, who lack a defined sub-portfolio, and from state secretaries,
Note: The concept is primarily described in Dutch-language contexts and may not correspond to fixed titles