Talk:Cohabitation (government)

Inconsistency
The articles on semi-presidential system and presidential system say that France is a semi-presidential system. Yet this one mentions it as a presidential-system''


 * I don't think "semi-presidential system" is an officially used term. Wouter Lievens 11:11, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * You're right: it isn't an official term. It's used by scholars. It refers to a Presidential system that's tempered by such mechanisms as a Parliament, as is the case in the French example. France, in basic terms, is a republic, but while the USA would be described as a republic with a President, the French system, due to its parliamentary remnants, cannot as easily be described in such a way. Nach0king 23:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Work in progress
This article was moved from the page on "Cohabitation" that I made in 2003, which has since been converted to something else. I only recently bothered to revive it, and as such it'll take me a while to get it back on its feet. Any help on this would be appreciated. Nach0king 23:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Any moderations to the text i recently added are appreciated. (AshleyHouston 17:10, 26 February 2006 (UTC))

Ukraine
The semi-presidential system exists in Ukraine, and Viktor Yushchenko, had to put his rival as Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych. Nothing about that? How the cohabitation is called over there? 82.240.207.81 18:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Globalize?
With all respect, "globalizing" this article makes as much sense as globalizing an article on the Seine. If one reads the article, he finds that cohabitation can only occur under a very specific set of circumstances which exist only in a limited number of countries. To date, it has only occured a few times, and those instances are well documented here. But even if the instances were not all mentioned, it wouldn't require mentioning them all, since all this article needs to do is explain and show some examples, which it does rather well. Per the above, I am removing the tag. Unschool 19:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Rather speculative analogy
"If the U.S. system allowed for cohabitation, the 2006 elections would have forced George W. Bush to appoint a new Speaker of the House of Representatives that would have been acceptable to the new Democratic majority[citation needed]. If he then appointed, say, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and then Mr. Ross was then approved by the House, Mr. Ross would then have proceeded to name new members of the Cabinet, from Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense, to Secretaries of Energy, Education, and Veteran's Affairs[citation needed]."

The preceding paragraph is speculative and probably original research. It suggests that the author does not understand the form of US governance or of France. If the US Constitution ( hypothetically ) allowed for "cohabitation", how would this mysteriously transform the role of Speaker into that of a prime minister ? And how would that transform the Speaker into the appointer of cabinet members ? It doesn't. It is purely hypothetical and rather uninformed speculation.

In fact, the degree of compromises required when the US power is split between a President of one part and a Congress dominated by the other party, as has occured,  is somewhat like cohabitation as it occurs in other places,  because neither party then has unilateral control of the national agenda. But its not the same thing as in France, and nobody calls it that in the USA. Eregli bob (talk) 14:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Portugal (New Section)
A new section needs to be created a to refer the Portuguese semi-presidential case. Portugal is a semi-presidential republic, based on no. 120, 121/1, 133/e) and 190 articles of the Portuguese Constitution (with 2005 revision). And needs to be referred that in 2004 there was a conflict between the President and the Prime Minister. The president then was Jorge Sampaio, who appointed Pedro Santana Lopes' Government and later, eventually, dismissed it with the dissolution of the Parliament. 82.154.137.87 (talk) 23:05, 13 August 2013 (UTC)