Brazil’s ongoing political conflict between Arthur Lira and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pits semipresidentialism against the current presidential system. Arthur Lira, Speaker of the House, advocates a semipresidential model where executive power is shared between a president and a prime minister. He believes this approach better addresses issues in the presidential coalition system by […]
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