Presidential system

A presidential system is a form of government that emerges as opposed to a parliamentary system with the requirement to run the country in a powerful manner.

Today the term presidential system is being discussed on various TV channels. After all, what is this presidential system? Is it really a different way of running the affairs of government? Or just a name change?

Before knowing this, it is important to understand the difference between government and state. Here is a brief introduction. Government representatives come for 5 years through popular vote and their job is to legislate for public interest and the team of these people representatives is called government. And the permanent institutions that implement the laws made by the government are called bureaucracy. And all these institutions are run by government officials. For example, Police, WAPDA, Railways, etc.

All these institutions are part of the state. Governments change, but state institutions remain constant. Government itself is part of the state. The government is headed by the prime minister and the head of state is the president.

In a presidential system, the president is the head of both the government and the state simultaneously. In China, it is different from the one-party system, because in it the president is democratically elected by popular vote, which cannot be removed by the parliament (legislature) under normal circumstances. In a presidential system, the president is directly elected by the people. This gives the president more power than an indirectly appointed leader. However, this is not an essential feature of presidential system.

In some presidential systems, the head of state is an indirectly elected person. The presidential system establishes the presidency and the legislature as two parallel structures. This allows each structure to monitor and check the other, preventing abuse of power. The ombudsman can check abuse of power by the president, but it can also obstruct the cases and actions that are needed. A president can provide more stability than a prime minister because of a fixed term. Because the prime minister can be dismissed at any time and he is blackmailed by the members of parliament and when there is a coalition government, this situation becomes more complicated. The President himself organizes his team in consultation with his party.

While this system has the above-mentioned advantages, some scholars point out the following disadvantages of the presidential system: it puts elections at stake, makes the state unipolar and can lead to dictatorship. Presidential systems often make it difficult to remove the president from office quickly, for example, for actions that do not have popular support and make the president unpopular with the public—