The American President has a lot more power because the USA is bigger than Scotland. Scotland's first minister still has a higher power which is the British Prime Minister. Besides the President of the USA can be considered the most powerful person in the world at the time because the USA is such a powerful country.
Scotland's First Minister is female.
Alex Salmond is the First Minister.
Scotland's current leader is First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who is the head of the Scottish Government and the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Scotland's First Minister is Alex Salmond.
Scotlands First Minister is Alex Salmond.
Scotland does not have it's own Prime Minister. The Prime Minister of the UK is also the Prime Minister of Scotland.
The US President is not a legislator. He plays no role in Congress. This is one of the big differences between the US Constitution and a parliamentary system in which the Prime Minister is the leader of his party on the legislature.
'President' is more of a general term for somebody presiding over something while 'Prime Minister' is almost exclusively used for particular types of government.
Post of First Minister is for the 4 years between Holyrood Elections
Donald Dewar was the very first First Minister. He was a member of the Labour party and was First Minister from May 1999 until his death in October 2000.
He was not an American president. He was prime minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966.
The chief differences between parliamentary and presidential governance are procedural and ceremonial. In parliamentary systems the electorate selects parties, which in-turn chose the sitting ministers of parliament (MPs).The Prime Minister is by fact an MP, unlike an American system president wholly separate from the Congress and Senate. In the parliamentary system the Prime Minister is equivalent to the American president as chief executive. Moreover the president in a parliamentary system is largely ceremonial symbolic position.
There is no Prime Minister in America.. O.o It is a President.