In Italy or Germany you don’t vote directly for the Prime Minister either. You vote for the party or coalition that expresses that candidate, but the elected pa

In Italy or Germany you don’t vote directly for the Prime Minister either. You vote for the party or coalition that expresses that candidate, but the elected parties usually form a coalition and part of the deal is who’s getting the PM chair. France and the US have what’s called “presidentialism” and they’re mostly outliers in Western democracies.