superpresidential

Adjective

superpresidential (comparative more superpresidential, superlative most superpresidential)

1. Of or relating to a form of republican government in which the president holds unusually extensive powers over the executive and legislature, surpassing those in standard presidential or semi‑presidential systems.
   • … after President Boris Yeltsin dissolved parliament in September 1993 and won a referencum on a new constitution that eliminated the previous sustem of checks and balances in favor of a new superpresidential order.1996 October 17, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 111
   • The superpresidential regime is therefore not stable; it can drift in any direction—changing its rhetoric, its goals, its balance of forces, and its major ideas.2002 January 24, M. Crawford Young, Mark Beissinger, editors, Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page 232