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This decision plunged France into a political crisis [2] [3] and was followed by France Unbowed (LFI), the main party of the NFP, initiating impeachment proceedings against the French president on 31 August. The caretaker government remained in place for 51 days, [2] unprecedented since the fallen Pompidou government lasted 62 days in 1962. [4]
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1910–1911: Champagne Riots, resulted from a series of problems faced by grape growers in the Champagne area of France. 1919–1920: Violent strikes; 1921: Violence that broke out at the premiere of the play The Gas Heart. 1926: Bloody Sunday, political clashes that occurred in Colmar, Alsace on August 22, 1926.
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In 2016 Jean-Luc Mélenchon, formerly of the ICO, launched the left-wing political platform La France Insoumise (Unbowed France), subsequently endorsed by several parties, including his own Left Party and the French Communist Party. In the 2017 French Presidential Election, he received 19% in the first round.
The May 1958 crisis (French: Crise de mai 1958), also known as the Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May, was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic and its replacement by the Fifth Republic led by Charles de Gaulle who returned to power after a twelve-year absence.
French law provides for a separate judicial branch with an independent judiciary which does not answer to or is directly controlled by the other two branches of government. [40] France has a civil law legal system, the basis of which is codified law; however, case law plays a significant role in the determination of the courts.