For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger served as governor of California despite not holding any office before. How did he prepare for this, and when?
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Think about Belgium, a country that functionned normaly without a government for 652 days.
The bureaucracy is already in place, the legal system is already existing, and even without elected leaders there is an army of high ranking personnel that run the state apparatus.
All these politicians do really is “representation” of leadership, give their opinions regarding different issues, and maybe push their agenda and priorities.
Yet, generaly speaking, everything is already established and can run by itself.
Thus, in reality these politicians only come and fill a seat. If they are new at the job, they’ll simply be pushed around different meetings and be briefed on different topics.
Most of their job is actually symbolic. They’re the face of the government, both representing the government and “representing” their constituents in the state apparatus.
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