Reforming the Constitution in a developing country: How mismanaging Constitutional reforms led to electoral loss in Botswana-Part II

This also means that there are no competing legitimacies. It further means that Executive leadership of the Legislature is central. In this case, members of the Executive or Cabinet ministers are appointed from a pool of legislators of the majority party in Parliament. For this reason, the Executive is the leadership of the majority party, and thus the leadership of the Legislature itself . Here the party constitutes political capital. According to Heffernan “this is because the party, by means of partisanship, is a resource ... because it encourages intra-executive stability (less so within a coalition) and provides inter-Legislative control.

The lesson here is that political capital works positively to empower the prime minister, and political success makes him/her popular and powerful. The fusion of parliament with the executive as it obtains in the Westminster model creates stability as members of the executive are drawn from the legislature, which commonly consists of members of the majority party. Therefore, rather than standing alone, the Executive is accountable to Parliament and acts on behalf of Parliament .