On the mountain, however, are trees and other plants. These grow, are cut down or die naturally. These plants represent the role of politics. It is also possible that the Governor-General's constitutional role as Head of State may receive more attention. Several Types Here is how the issue of confidence works.
Confidence votes can take several different forms.
The Government is presumed to have the confidence of the House unless some-thing happens to cast doubts on that support. Recent Examples Twice during the last parliamentary term, the issue of confidence became, potentially, of constitu-tional importance. In both cases, although there was a political crisis, there was not a constitutional crisis. The reason why there wasn't a constitutional crisis was because the Governor-General was comfortable that the Prime Minister retained the confidence of the House. Secondly, all the politicians understood that political matters had to be kept separate from constitutional matters.