I. Advantaged of the Presidential Form II. Advantages of the Parliamentary
Form 1. Since the President is directly 1. The parliamentary form is more elected by the people, he has a suited for countries with deep strong claim to democratic ideological or religious cleavages legitimacy. or numerous political parties or 2. Direct election by the people gives sectoral factions him the resolve to govern 2. Parliamentary democracy provides independently and to disregard opportunity for the people to make pressures from vested interests. a clear choice of political 3. The President’s fixed term of alternatives. office makes for stability and 3. The parliamentary form makes for strength to push even unpopular stability in mature democracies as but necessary programs of executive power depends on government and to accelerate legislative majorities constituted economic development after parliamentary election. 4. The presidential system accords with personalistic culture of the Filipinos
III. Disadvantages of the Presidential IV. Disadvantages of the Parliamentary
Form Form 1. The presidential system 1. The political development of the concentrates too much power in country has not yet reached that the hands of one man, and sets the level of maturity where political stage for personalistic rule. parties have been strengthened 2. This personalistic culture impinges around clear-cut national adversely on the quality of other alternatives and ideologies. political leaders. 2. In the parliamentary form, the 3. A strongman rule undermines representatives of the people are political programs and weakens sometime weakened as against the political parties based on ideology. cabinet, which can threaten to 4. The President is under the make issues matters of strongest temptation to usurp “confidence”. This can lead to powers of the other main paralyzation of governmental departments of government. functions. 3. Since the parliamentary form is based on compromises and horse- trading, collective responsibility leads to a weak government.