Claim: Mauritius' government is closely modeled on the English parliamentary system.

The Westminster system is a parliamentary system of government modelled after that which developed in the United Kingdom . This term comes from the Palace of Westminster , the seat of the British parliament .  The system is a series of procedures for operating a legislature . It is used , or was once used , in the national legislatures and subnational legislatures of most Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth nations upon gaining responsible government , beginning with the first of the Canadian provinces in 1848 and the six Australian colonies between 1855 and 1890 . However , some former colonies have since adopted either the presidential system -LRB- Nigeria for example -RRB- or a hybrid system -LRB- like South Africa -RRB- as their form of government .