A directly elected president and an executive council exercised the executive power.
The most important ruling body in the kingdom was the Collateral Council, comprising five regents presided over by the viceroy, with a judicial council and a financial council exercising their respective competencies at its side.
The appointed council "exercises a de facto veto" over the elected, because draft acts must be approved by it in order they pass into law.
Although these councils exercise broad legislative powers, they are controlled by the central government.
Many councils exercise their powers to force people to sell their houses to pay for their dementia care.
Members of the former are directly elected to a five-year term, while members of the latter, who also serve a five-year term, can be either selected by state councils or directly elected if state councils exercise the option to hold an election.
First, we assessed whether client councils exercise their legal rights in decision-making of nursing and residential facilities.
Research questions were: ' Do client councils exercise their rights to be consulted and to give their consent?' and ' What is the role of client councils in the process of measuring clients' experiences with the CQ-index and what is their opinion about the CQ-index?' Postal questionnaires were sent to members of 1,540 client councils of Dutch nursing homes and residential care facilities.
Therefore, our first research question is: ' Do client councils exercise their rights to be consulted and to give their consent?' Because the CQ-index is relatively new, we were particularly interested in the role of client councils in the process of measuring client experiences and their opinion about the CQ-index.
When the percentages of the 'rights to be consulted' and 'right of consent' are summated, for almost every organisational issue more than 50% councils exercise their legal right or are even more involved than would be necessary from a legal point of view.
The councils exercised considerable autonomy domestically.
