Constitutional and Unconstitutional Conditions of the Power of the President of Brazil

The study aims to analyze the key formal and extralegal elements affecting the functioning of the office of president in Brazil. The subject of consideration is the political position of the president resulting from the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of October 5, 1988, and the socioultural dependencies occurring in this country. The thesis of the article is the statement that the power of the President of Brazil results not only from the provisions of the Constitution but also from unconstitutional dependence on pressure groups, i.e. the bureaucratic state – estamento burocrático. It is stated that the features of the Brazilian presidential system are the ostensibility of formal structures and the presence of political patronage, the lack of permanent political divisions, coalitional presidentialism, and the interpenetration of politics and the media due to ownership relations.