The paper comparatively examines Romania's and Russia's political regimes as subtypes of the semi-presidential model, in terms of presidents' constitutional authority. It also examines the current semi-presidential systems in Romania and Russia as cases of the sub-types of semi-presidential model, since the "particular" ways in which the presidents interpret and apply the constitutional provisions and report themselves to the extra-constitutional factors, mainly to the parliamentary majority

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... political parties. The aim is to show, following Sartori's, Samuel's and Shugart's explanatory principles, the manner in which is configured the current presidential power in Romania and Russia by the prezidentialization of president's provenance party and by the prezidentialization and personalization of power.