“Presidentialism and Parliamentary System in Latin America. Considerations on a Balance to Be Defined”

Abstract The balance among the different types of presidential systems in Latin American countries is an issue of current interest. These Latin American experiences do not respond to the same logic that influences the different forms of government in other systems. The political, economic and social conditions of these countries are still decisive in the search for the separation of constitutional powers, so maintaining the centrality of the president. Therefore, the last constitutional amendments failed to successfully consolidate the democratic transitions, remodelling hyper-presidentialism in parliamentary or semipresidential systems.