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Presidential Unitary Republic
• A presidential system is a democratic and republican system of
government where a head of government leads an executive branch that
is separate from the legislative branch.
• A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central
government is ultimately supreme and any administrative
divisions exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to
delegate.
The European countries that have adopted the former political system are:
Cyprus
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