The semi-presidential system is a form of government in which a directly elected president shares executive power with a prime minister and government appointed by, and serving with the continuing confidence of, a democratically elected legislature. The system is characterized by two sites of executive power, each with a separate electoral mandate. Semi-presidentialism offers a middle ground between “pure” presidential and “pure” parliamentary systems of government. The dual executive structure of the model is a move away from a purely presidential system of government.
the current president of france is François Hollande