 The court does not have the authority to actually veto legislation, however, and neither does it have the soft power to make draft bills politically untenable.Austria is a parliamentary democracy in which most bills originate not with individual legislators but with the cabinet; the country has also had strong consociationalist tendencies historically and remains highly consensus-oriented to this day.Formal expert opinions on draft bills offered by political lobbying groups, professional associations, churches, regional governments, and various arms of the national bureaucracy are a routine part of the legislative process; neither the cabinet nor the legislature are required to defer to any of them.