Talk:Semi-presidential republic

Which came first, the French or the Finn?
2. The article states that the Finnish system was based on the French, when in fact the Constitution of Finland pre-dates that of the French Fifth Republic, which established the semi-presidential system in France, by several decades.

Changes made
Edited this page in two ways.

1. I added "popularly elected" to the reference to semi-presidential systems featuring a president who is more than a figurehead. It is standard (though not universal) among political scientists to confine the term "semi-presidential" to systems where the president is popularly elected.

2. I deleted some countries from the list of examples of semi-presidentialism. The ones I deleted lack popularly elected presidents (Germany, post WWII, which is almost universally classified as parliamentary, and Pakistan and Lebanon, where the president is not elected). I also deleted Egypt because the PM is hardly relevant in a system that is in fact a presidential authoritarian system, not a democracy (or even semi-democracy, like Pakistan). One could make a strong case for deleting Finland after constitutional reforms in 2000 deprived the president of almost all his authority, but I left it in.

Countries with limited recognition
There should be consensus regarding the inclusion of countries with limited recognition. It would be better to include only countries which are recognised by at least one UN member state. Please share your thoughts and ideas in this regard. The Sri Lanka (talk) 14:43, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Confijurasion
Llamada — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:102E:18:7CB8:20A9:DC70:BE2:FB22 (talk) 11:00, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Ceremonial elected presidents
The article is unclear as to whether it intends to include elected presidents whose role is predominately ceremonial or administrative acting on the advice of the government though possibly with some rarely-used reserve powers. Looking at the lists (e.g. Ireland), it does not - instead calling such countries parliamentary republics. But the text seems to suggest that perhaps it should. Personally, I think the text should be changed. 193.240.203.36 (talk) 13:10, 9 October 2023 (UTC)