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As if European countries worked differently...

• Rebelgecko 7y ago
  Are there any presidential republics in Europe?
  • Marsymars 7y ago
    Belarus?
    • Rebelgecko 7y ago
      I'm not sure how much that counts since my understanding is that the president's decrees are essentially laws, and when the judicial branch said that was unconstitutional the president just ignored them. Not exactly a lot of checks and balances.
      • dragonwriter 7y ago
        That absolutely is a (strong) Presidential Republic, a term which does not depend on checks and balances (though some Presidential Republics feature that trait.)
        • Rebelgecko 7y ago
          I thought that in a presidential republic the head of state can't write laws themselves?
  • I-M-S 7y ago
    France
  • mr_toad 7y ago
    France, for one, has a directly elected president with executive power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France
  • jfkebwjsbx 7y ago
    That's not the point. Every modern country ends up working the same in practice, whatever the bureaucracy is and whatever the president/prime minister/king/queen legally wields more or less power.
    • dragonwriter 7y ago
      > Every modern country ends up working the same in practice, That's not even true of just stable democracies, much less every country. In fact, the differences in practice have been satisfied quite a bit.
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  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > Are there any presidential republics in Europe? Yes, but more semipresidențial systems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system
  • fulafel 7y ago
    Russia?