The president-elect Noh declared that he would share the executive power with the prime minster to keep the government from the risk of dictatorship. In addition, regarding the electoral system, he would intend to operate the major or medium constitue...
The president-elect Noh declared that he would share the executive power with the prime minster to keep the government from the risk of dictatorship. In addition, regarding the electoral system, he would intend to operate the major or medium constituency system in order to eradicate regional parties. The subject of the study is focused on both the efficiency of the division of the president's executive power and the parliamentary electoral system.
The following is the result of the study.
1. The form of Korean government is a presidential system. The vital prerequisite for a presidential system is 'one person executive'. Namely, the presidential system does not allow any kind of dual authorities between the president and his cabinet. The governmental system that the president-elect Noh premeditated is a dual authority system, which means a semi-presidential government and hence is not able to be acceptable to the current constitutional organization. Therefore, if he insists on the share of executive power with a prime minister, he should revise the constitution firstly.
2. The Electoral systems are divided into Majority Representation System and Proportional Representation System. It is hard to say that major or medium constituency system is necessarily preferable to prevent a party from regionalism in the Majority Representation System. I would rather suggest that it is more effective to supplement or partially revise the Proportional Representation System while maintaining the minor constituency system to overcome the problem of regional parties.