比如20世纪80年代的葡萄牙就采用了削弱总统权力而扩大议会权力的半总统制，以至于把这种体制称为"议会半总统制"似乎更为妥当。
Like Portugal in the 1980's, they adopted semi-presidential systems that so reduce presidential authority and increase the parliament's powers that they are most accurately described as "parliamentarized semi-presidential" systems.