Editing Indirect election (section)

=== Prime minister ===
The most prominent position in parliamentary democracies is the prime ministership.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Glasgow |first1=Garrett |last2=Golder |first2=Matt |last3=Golder |first3=Sona N. |date=October 2011 |title=Who "Wins"? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister: WHO "WINS"? |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00524.x |journal=American Journal of Political Science |language=en |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=937–954 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00524.x|s2cid=154083816 }}</ref>

Under the [[Westminster system]], named after and typified by the [[parliament of the United Kingdom]], a prime minister (or first minister, premier, or chief minister) is the person that can command the largest coalition of supporters in parliament. In almost all cases, the prime minister is the leader of a political party (or [[coalition]]) that has a majority in the parliament, or the [[lower house]] (such as the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]), or in the situation that no one party has a majority then the largest party or a coalition of smaller parties may attempt to form a minority government. The prime minister is thus indirectly elected as political parties elect their own leader through internal democratic process, while the general public choose from amongst the local candidates of the various political parties or independents.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harding |first=Andrew |date=January 2004 |title=The 'Westminster Model' Constitution Overseas: Transplantation, Adaptation and Development in Commonwealth States |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729342.2004.11421442 |journal=Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=143–166 |doi=10.1080/14729342.2004.11421442 |s2cid=147155846 |issn=1472-9342|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The Westminster model continues to be used in a number of [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries including [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]], [[Singapore]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-10 |title=The Westminster system |url=https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/visit-and-learn/resources/factsheets/the-westminster-system |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=www.parliament.act.gov.au |language=en}}</ref> Additionally many nations colonized by the British Empire inherited the Westminster model following their independence.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41335/chapter/352410134 |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=academic.oup.com |doi=10.1093/law/9780198793045.003.0006 |title=The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Westminster Model |year=2020 |last1=o'Brien |first1=Derek |pages=131–161 |isbn=978-0198793045 }}</ref>

In [[Spain]], the [[Congress of Deputies]] votes on a [[motion of confidence]] of the [[Monarchy of Spain|king's]] nominee ([[Constitutional convention (political custom)|customarily]] the party leader whose party controls the Congress) and the nominee's [[political manifesto]], an example of an indirect election of the [[prime minister of Spain]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Heywood |first=Paul |date=1991-04-01 |title=Governing a new democracy: The power of the prime minister in Spain |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424847 |journal=West European Politics |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=97–115 |doi=10.1080/01402389108424847 |issn=0140-2382|url-access=subscription }}</ref>