Semi-presidential

52 countries or other entities

The president is elected by the citizens for a fixed term, and there is also a government, usually led by a prime minister, that needs the legislature's confidence.

Source: Elgie (1999), 'The Politics of Semi-Presidentialism', in Semi-Presidentialism in Europe (Oxford University Press); applied as in Cheibub, Elkins and Ginsburg (2014), 'Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism', British Journal of Political Science 44(3)