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{{Politics of Namibia}}
'''Politics of Namibia''' takes place in a framework of a [[semi-presidential system|semi-presidential]] [[representative democracy|representative democratic]] republic, whereby the [[President of Namibia]] is both [[head of state]] and [[head of government]],<ref name="Draft">{{cite journal |last=Shugart |first=Matthew Søberg |date=September 2005 |title=Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive and Mixed Authority Patterns |url=http://dss.ucsd.edu/~mshugart/semi-presidentialism.pdf |journal=Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819200307/http://dss.ucsd.edu/~mshugart/semi-presidentialism.pdf |archive-date=19 August 2008 |access-date=4 September 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Dual">{{cite journal |last=Shugart |first=Matthew Søberg |date=December 2005 |title=Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive And Mixed Authority Patterns |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.fp.8200087.pdf |journal=French Politics |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=323–351 |doi=10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200087 |s2cid=73642272 |access-date=4 September 2016 |quote=Of the contemporary cases, only four provide the assembly majority an unrestricted right to vote no confidence, and of these, only two allow the president unrestricted authority to appoint the prime minister. These two, Mozambique and Namibia, as well as the Weimar Republic, thus resemble most closely the structure of authority depicted in the right panel of Figure 3, whereby the dual accountability of the cabinet to both the president and the assembly is maximized. (...) Namibia allows the president to dissolve ''[the assembly]'' at any time but places a novel negative incentive on his exercise of the right: He must stand for a new election at the same time as the new assembly elections. |doi-access=free }}</ref> and of a pluriform [[multi-party system]]. [[Executive power]] is exercised by both the president and the government. [[Legislative power]] is vested in the two chambers of [[Parliament of Namibia|Parliament]]. The [[judiciary]] is independent of the executive and the legislature.

Additional to the government political structure Namibia has a network of [[Traditional leadership of Namibia|traditional leadership]] with currently 51 recognised traditional authorities and their leaders. These authorities cover the entire Namibian territory. Traditional leaders are entrusted with the allocation of communal land and the formulation of the traditional group's customary laws. They also take over minor judicial work.

{{Democracy Index rating|Namibia|flawed democracy|2023}}