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A republican regime was given way again in 1870 through the Third Republic, after the fall of Napoleon III. A 1962 referendum held under the Fifth Republic at the request of President Charles de Gaulle transferred the election of the president of France from an electoral college to a popular vote. Since then, ten presidential elections have ...
The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. It was in many ways a revival of the Third Republic , which governed from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II , and it suffered many of the same ...
The Regency of Algiers became a de facto Independent stratocracy, with power vested first in the agha, appointed as president of the diwan, then the Dey of Algiers from 1671 onward. [2] [3] United States: 4 March 1789: The present U.S. constitution became effective, establishing the current U.S. government. [4] France: 21 September 1792
The president signed five decrees on 22 September. [127] Government figures released in October 2017 revealed that during the legislative push, the unemployment rate had dropped 1.8%, the biggest since 2001. [128] On 16 March 2023 France enacted a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, [129] leading to protests. [130]
The Fifth Republic (French: Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government.It was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
There were two presidential elections in France during the republican government known as the Fourth Republic (1946–1958). They were held in 1947 and 1953. The president was elected by the Congress of the French Parliament, a joint meeting of both houses of the French Parliament [11] (the National Assembly and the Council of the Republic).
The French Second Republic (French: Deuxième république française or La II e République), officially the French Republic (République française), was the second republican government of France. It existed from 1848 until its dissolution in 1852.
Georges Pompidou began his term as president of France. 1974: 27 May: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing began his term as president of France. 1981: 21 May: François Mitterrand began his term as president of France. 1986: 17 February: Single European Act : a major revision of the Treaty of Rome to establish a common market by the end of 1992. (to 28 ...