Does anyone know what the difference between President and Prime Minister is?

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2 Responses to Does anyone know what the difference between President and Prime Minister is?

  1. punjabipwr says:

    The queenputin deals with everything while the pres the puppet is the queenputin deals with everything while the power but is hidden like britian with the puppet is the pm has all the queenputin deals.

  2. Fred says:

    It depends on who is in power.

    Theoretically, Russia's system divides power between the president and prime minister, rather similar to France, Finland, Poland, and other semi-presidential regimes. The prime minister, who is a legislator (i.e., a member of parliament), shares control over the goverment bureaucracy (i.e., the executive) with the president. The prime minister and president serve as co-heads of government, with the president able to appoint or dismiss a prime minister as he sees fit, and the president serving as head of state (where he calls the legislature into session, greets foreign dignitaries, and performs other ceremonial duties). This semi-presidential system contrasts with parliamentary democracies like Italy or Germany, where the prime minister holds the power, and the president is only the head of state, a figurehead who stays out of day-to-day politics.

    However, Russia's government doesn't work strictly according to the constitution. It is, in fact, an authoritarian system where the leader exercises a great deal of personal power, and that leader is Vladimir Putin. When Putin was president, the president was dominant, and the prime minister and legislature gave him enormous leeway to do as he please, and rubber-stamped many of his plans. Now, Putin is no longer president, but rather prime minister. Many Russia-watchers now believe that real power has shifted to the prime minister, with the current president, Medvedev, acting on Putin's wishes. The puppet, in other words, holds whatever job Mr. Putin does not. This is what happens when democracy and the rule of law break down.

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