Why not correct 'the fault' in the system?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an recently said, ?With the presidential system this multi-headedness will come to an end.? He then uttered another sentence revealing his understanding of ?multi-headedness?: ?Most of what is going on in parliament will not happen anymore. All of this multi-headedness, all of these obstructions will be abolished.?

The meaning behind the president?s sentences is clear: When the president becomes ?the president in the presidential system,? there will be no need for a parliament. There will be no need for debates, talks and conciliation in parliament. Whatever the president wants will happen. Everybody else will shut up.

We already knew this. In the order he has described as the ?Turkish-type presidential system,? the country will be ruled by presidential decrees. Whatever the president says will be the law; there will be no judicial control.

At the same time, he keeps saying, ?An elected person cannot be a dictator.?

This is not to make an analogy, God forbid, but we know that on the contrary it can indeed happen. Hitler was also elected.

Elections are not the only way to prevent authoritarian one-man rule, or the election of a president by popular vote. 

A parliament should also be elected, conducting legislative duties in the name of the people, making laws, checking the president?s acts and operations, preparing the budget, and questioning expenditures.

But even this is not enough. There should also be an independent judicial arm to protect the rights of the citizens and monitor the administration?s operations.

President Erdo?an says, ?We are sick and tired of the faults in the system; we cannot continue with this faulty system.?

We know the...