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thatscarletflycatcher · 4 months ago

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You know when I was a kid I was taught that Uruguay was a presidentialist Republic, but the past few years learning about international politics definitely tone down that definition in my mind.

#like... appointing supreme court justices? not a presidential competence #assigned by special parliament majority between the members of the court of appeals #and if parliament fails to pick the longest standing member of the court of appeals is automatically appointed when time runs out #dissolving parliament? yes but only once per term #and exclusively in the context of a tug of war with parliament over a minister #because the president appoints the ministers but parliament has the power to sack them #so basically the possibility is there to stop a hostile parliament from turning the executive into a ministerial revolving door #and so on and so forth #when the current government had its huge dispositions package they HAD to pass it as a parliament law #there are things the president can do by decree but they are definitely not as many or as deep as I see elsewhere #so what isn't a presidentialist republic pray tell

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