The presidential form of government suffers from following drawbacks:

• In this system, there is a lot of disagreement between the legislative and the executive. This dispute might be extremely tough to resolve at times.
• Because the executive is not a member of the legislature and is not subject to legislative oversight, the executive is not accountable to the legislature for its actions and decisions.
• Many a times, this system has given the space to dictatorial and autocratic tendencies.
• Because the members are not directly chosen by the public, the executive has limited representation and does not have popular support.