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"The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote, is not term-limited, and has limited powers".
While this is true by convention (actual practice), in theory (constitutional powers), the President of Iceland is entrusted with a large degree of executive power and can even form and dismiss cabinets with full discretion. Ministers cannot even resign from their posts without being dismissed by presidential decree. This situation is in parallel to that of the President of Austria, as both countries have president-parliamentary (semi-presidential) constitutions, except their actual role is only to exercise their wide powers on the advice of their heads of government. -- B.Lameira ( talk) 16:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Where does this style of address come from? There's no source for it and as far as I know there's no direct Icelandic equivalent. Margretarson ( talk) 12:08, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
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![]() | This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
On the sentence:
"The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote, is not term-limited, and has limited powers".
While this is true by convention (actual practice), in theory (constitutional powers), the President of Iceland is entrusted with a large degree of executive power and can even form and dismiss cabinets with full discretion. Ministers cannot even resign from their posts without being dismissed by presidential decree. This situation is in parallel to that of the President of Austria, as both countries have president-parliamentary (semi-presidential) constitutions, except their actual role is only to exercise their wide powers on the advice of their heads of government. -- B.Lameira ( talk) 16:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Where does this style of address come from? There's no source for it and as far as I know there's no direct Icelandic equivalent. Margretarson ( talk) 12:08, 2 June 2024 (UTC)