Talk:List of countries with coalition governments

Coalitions in presidential countries
First of all, we should have to distinguish between electoral alliances and ruling coalitions.

Even more when talking about countries with full-presidential systems, as the President is the only depositary of the executive power, even if the "coalition" breaks up at any time during his/her fixed-period mandate.

But even in the case that an apparent strong coalition is ruling a Presidential country, the definition of it is tenous: is it an alliance when an ally names the Vice-President? when it has members in the cabinet? when its parlamentaries generally back government proposals?

As the intro of the article clearly states, coalition governments are for parliamentary republics. It makes no sense (it has a very different sense) for full-presidential systems.

Salut, --IANVS (talk) 05:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * When I was making it I based it on countries that have ministers of more than one party in the cabinet (the US being an obvious exception). 07bargem (talk) 16:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I removed Australia from the list as it has a minority government, with confidence and supply support from a Greens and independents, not a coalition government.--Mijopo (talk) 20:30, 10 January 2012 (UTC)