I wasn't arguing in favour of a purely symbolic president, but I should have made that clear at the start of my reply, I apologise. The kind of role I was imag

I wasn't arguing in favour of a purely symbolic president, but I should have made that clear at the start of my reply, I apologise. The kind of role I was imagining is one that could have a legal continuity with the GG role (and could keep the same name), but their mandate would come from the people, and not the monarch. My point was, by limiting their power, they would be very different from a US style executive president, and ideally (if the government of the day was doing its job properly) this president would indeed find themselves only performing symbolic/ceremonial functions.