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The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. The Fifth Republic emerged from the ashes of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a parliamentary government with a semi-presidential system.

Foundation by Charles de Gaulle

The impetus behind the creation of the Fifth Republic was the Algiers crisis of 1958. Although France had since parted with many of its colonies, many of them in West Africa and Southeast Asia, Algeria was part of France and sent representatives to the French parliament. Its distance from the French mainland and the cultural differences inherent in being on another continent and largely with a different dominant religion, led to rising pressure for separation from the rest of France. The situation was complicated by the dispute being not a classic struggle for a colony to gain independence but for a part of a country to secede from the rest. At the same time, there were those in Algeria who wanted to stay part of France, so the Algerian War became not just a separatist movement but had elements of a civil war. Further complications came when a section of the French army rebelled and openly backed the "Algérie française" movement to defeat separation.

De Gaulle condemned terroristic acts committed in both Algeria and mainland France and angered the rebel section of the army and "Algérie française" supporters, including the latter-day Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, by arranging a peace with the nationalist rebels. Algeria became independent on July 5, 1962.

Charles de Gaulle used the crisis to create a new French governmental system. In the Fourth Republic, governments had repeatedly fallen since the second world war as no party gained an overall majority. The position of president had little of its modern power. De Gaulle proposed that presidents should be elected for seven years, since reduced to five, and that they should have executive powers to run the country in consultation with a prime minister whom he would appoint from elected parliamentarians.

His plans were approved by 79.2 per cent of those who voted in a referendum on September 28, 1958. Since each new constitution establishes a new republic, France moved from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic.

The president was initially elected by an electoral college, but in 1962 de Gaulle proposed that the president should be directly elected by the citizens in a referendum. Although the method and intents of de Gaulle in that referendum were contested by most political groups except for the Gaullists, the change was approved by the French electorate.

The president is now elected every five years in two rounds of voting. The first round is open to all and will establish a president if any candidate gets an overall majority. If there is no winner in the first round, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes go to a second round.

Fifth Republic: Presidents

President Born-died from to Party
Charles de Gaulle1890-1970December 21, 1959April 28, 1969 (resigned)UNR then UDR
Alain Poher1909-1996April 28, 1969June 15, 1969 (interim)PDM
Georges Pompidou1911-1974June 15, 1969April 2, 1974 (died in office)UDR
Alain Poher1909-1996April 2, 1974May 19, 1974 (interim)PDM
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing1926-May 19, 1974May 10, 1981UDF
François Mitterrand1916-1996May 10, 1981May 17, 1995Socialist
Jacques Chirac1932-May 17, 1995May 16, 2007RPR then UMP
Nicolas Sarkozy1955-May 16, 2007presentUMP

Fifth Republic: Prime ministers

Prime Minister from to Party
Michel DebréJanuary 8, 1959April 14, 1962UNR
Georges PompidouApril 14, 1962July 10, 1968UNR
Maurice Couve de MurvilleJuly 10, 1968June 20, 1969UDR
Jacques Chaban-DelmasJune 20, 1969July 6, 1972UDR
Pierre MessmerJuly 6, 1972May 27, 1974UDR
Jacques ChiracMay 27, 1974August 26, 1976UDR
Raymond BarreAugust 26, 1976May 21, 1981UDF
Pierre MauroyMay 21, 1981July 17, 1984Socialist
Laurent FabiusJuly 17, 1984March 20, 1986Socialist
Jacques ChiracMarch 20, 1986May 10, 1988RPR
Michel RocardMay 10, 1988May 15, 1991Socialist
Edith CressonMay 15, 1991April 2, 1992Socialist
Pierre BérégovoyApril 2, 1992March 29, 1993Socialist
Edouard BalladurMarch 29, 1993May 18, 1995RPR
Alain JuppéMay 18, 1995June 3, 1997RPR
Lionel JospinJune 3, 1997May 6, 2002Socialist
Jean-Pierre RaffarinMay 6, 2002May 31, 2005UMP
Dominique de VillepinMay 31, 2005May 15, 2007UMP
François FillonMay 17, 2007presentUMP

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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of
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Franks or Frankish people (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an ethnic group living north and east of the Lower Rhine.
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French Monarchy-
Capetian Dynasty, House of Valois
(House of Valois>Valois-Orlans branch)

Louis XII
Children
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The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century.
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The First Republic in France, officially the French Republic (French: République française) was proclaimed on 21 September 1792, during the French Revolution.
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The First French Empire, commonly known as the French Empire or the Napoleonic Empire, was the regime of Napoleon I in France, through which he dominated much of continental Europe.
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Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The ensuing period is called the Restauration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics.
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The French Second Republic (or simply the Second Republic) was the republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire.
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The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.
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The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) (1870-10 July 1940) was the political regime of France between the Second French Empire and the Vichy Regime.
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Vichy France, or the Vichy regime, was the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. It succeeded the Third Republic.
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Legislature National Assembly
Historical era Cold War

 - Established October 14, 1946

 - Disestablished October 4, 1958

Currency French Franc

The Fourth Republic
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Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a democracy, with an emphasis on liberty, rule by the people, and the civic virtue practiced by citizens. Republicanism always stands in opposition to aristocracy, oligarchy, and dictatorship.
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Politics and government of
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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October 5 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961

Year 1958 (MCMLVIII
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Legislature National Assembly
Historical era Cold War

 - Established October 14, 1946

 - Disestablished October 4, 1958

Currency French Franc

The Fourth Republic
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parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement
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The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a prime minister and a president are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state.
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The May 1958 crisis (or Algiers putsch or the coup of May 13) was a political crisis in France, during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), which led to the return of
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colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception.
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Motto
من الشعب و للشعب    (Arabic)
"From the people and for the people"
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Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer, France) is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party.
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