> The president of Switzerland has extremely limited power due to the decentralised nature of their government.
I agree with you main point (power is more decentralised), but the office of the president isn't the important part here.
The president (who is a member of the federal council) is just a largely ceremonial role whose only actual additional political power is having a tie-breaker vote - something that is rarely relevant given that the council has seven members.
The really important part about the Swiss government (i.e. the federal council) is that there are seven equal heads of government instead of one and that they are a perpetual coalition government consisting of all the major parties weighted by their actual parliamentary representation - something that btw isn't written down anywhere it's just an informal tradition that has been kept alive for decades.
I agree with you main point (power is more decentralised), but the office of the president isn't the important part here.
The president (who is a member of the federal council) is just a largely ceremonial role whose only actual additional political power is having a tie-breaker vote - something that is rarely relevant given that the council has seven members.
The really important part about the Swiss government (i.e. the federal council) is that there are seven equal heads of government instead of one and that they are a perpetual coalition government consisting of all the major parties weighted by their actual parliamentary representation - something that btw isn't written down anywhere it's just an informal tradition that has been kept alive for decades.