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diarchy

NOUN
  1. a form of government having two joint rulers

How To Use diarchy In A Sentence

  • The Nigerian diarchy would see the system of government shared between a serving or retired military president and a civilian prime minister with a democratically elected legislature.
  • The monarchy of de Gaulle was followed by a diarchy with Pompidou, Giscard d' Estaing, and early Mitterrand, where the president and prime minister were from the same party; since 1986, cohabitation has altered this diarchy.
  • Raymond Barre told the UDF group in parliament in September 1983 that according to de Gaulle there could be no diarchy at the summit of the state; a president faced by a hostile Assembly would either have to dissolve it or himself resign.
  • Some analysts argue that Delhi being a diarchy, the anti-incumbency factor was deflected from the state to the Centre.
  • Nigerian intellectuals, in particular, and African intellectuals, in general, have also debated other alternative forms of democracy similar to diarchy.
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