A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a form of government where the head of government (chief executive) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support (“confidence”) of a majority of the legislature, to which they are held accountable.1
Countries with parliamentary systems may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (…)1
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Parliamentary system, Wikipedia ↩ ↩2