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The US president has way way way more power than the Prime Minister.

The prime minister is more or less a privileged PM.

He is not the head of the military, cannot create executive orders or anything of the like.

that is true, but in the countries with a prime minister i know about, as far as i am aware, noone has that kind of power. in other countries the concept of an executive order appears not to even exist. in my brief search i only found something comparable in france can be issued by the council of ministers. everywhere else only parliament can do that. nevertheless in those countries the prime minister is the most powerful person running the country, and the president is a figurehead.

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