parochial boy
parochial_boy
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 24, 2022, 12:51:17 PM » |
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I never really get the desire to position a semi-presidential system as some kind of "compromise" solution. France is the semi-presidential system par excellence and this in practice leads to the French president being the individually most powerful political figure in any electoral democracy as he defaults to having a legisliative majority and the hyperpersonlisation of the office means weaker parties default around individual personal projects.
More to the point, it is no coincidence that the two western democracies experience the biggest socio-political crises and the worst loss of trust in the political authorities at the moment are the US and France. As in, the two principal presidential regimes. A President has all the flaws of FPTP wrapped up to the next level, not just a hyperpersonalisation; but also that the election of one individual on a winner takes all basis leads to the default exclusion of political opponents from the decision making process with the consequential anger and disillusion of those excluded from having an effective political representation.
As for the fear the parliamentary systems lead to a concentration of power. Well there is no need for a unicameral system, and no necessary need for the executive to drive the parliamentary agenda.
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