Diploma thesis seeks to analyze the introduction of the direct election of the President of the Czech Republic as a potential impulse towards semipresidentialism. For this purpose, the work defined theoretical concepts parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential forms of government. In addition to the anticipated research direct election, as an factor of strengthening the president's legitimacy among others, the work will include analysis of the effects of Miloš Zeman first year in office and its relation to other constitutional institutions. These assessments are important for overal outputs of this work because they can be a pointer to the objectives of the work. The work will also be mentioned tradition of Czech (Czechoslovak) presidency.