Angola e Mozambico: presidenzialismi in via di consolidamento

Abstract

In the political contexts south of the Sahara, the gap between what is described by constitutional formants and what happens in practice is often considerable; formal constitutions and material constitutions are often separated by an unbridgeable gap and, for these reasons, reconciling the forms of African contexts' governance to a specific model identified by the literature is an extremely difficult task since these institutional systems do not really seem to fit into any of the categories traditionally studied in comparative law textbooks. Regardless of the form of government described in the constitutional formant, the political contexts of sub-Saharan Africa tend to adopt a hybrid system of government that is characterized by an accentuation of presidential powers at the expense of other traditional state powers. The countries of Angola and Mozambique, Portuguese colonies in sub-Saharan Africa, are no exception to this trend. Both contexts - although with significant differences - end up adopting a presidential form of government in which the powers attributed to the Head of State, often identified as the sole man in command, are central and particularly centralized.