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Up until recently, the government of France had alternated between two rather stable coalitions: on the centre-left, one led by the Socialist Party and with minor partners such as The Greens and the Radical Party of the Left. on the centre-right, one led by The Republicans (and previously its predecessors, the Union for a Popular Movement, Rally for the Republic) and the Union of Democrats and ...
The Democratic Movement (French: Mouvement démocrate, pronounced [muv.mɑ̃ de.mɔ.kʁat]; MoDem, [mɔ.dɛm]) is a centre [2][3][4][5] to centre-right [6][7] political party in France, whose main ideological trends are liberalism [8] and Christian democracy, [8] and that is characterised by a strong pro-Europeanist stance. [8] MoDem was established by François Bayrou to succeed the Union for ...
The politics of France take place within the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic ". [1] The constitution provides for a separation of powers and proclaims France's "attachment to the ...
The Union of Democrats and Independents (French: Union des démocrates et indépendants, UDI) is a liberal [4] political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the eponymous parliamentary group in the National Assembly. The party was composed of separate political parties that retained their ...
Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. [1] It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, social history, people's history, and public history. Political history studies the organization and operation of power in large societies.
Emmanuel Macron, the 25th president of France, positions himself as a liberal and a centrist. [ 1 ][ 2 ] When he launched his party En Marche in April 2016, he said that it was "neither right nor left". By March 2017, Macron stated that he and his party were now "both right and left". [ 3 ] Prior to the establishiment of En Marche, some observers described him as a social liberal, [ 4 ][ 5 ...
The Government of France (French: Gouvernement français, pronounced [ɡuvɛʁnəmɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]), officially the Government of the French Republic (Gouvernement de la République française, [ɡuvɛʁnəmɑ̃ də la ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the prime minister, who is the head of government, as well as both senior and junior ministers.
The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale [asɑ̃ble nɑsjɔnal]) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat). The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés (French pronunciation: [depyte]), meaning "delegate" or "envoy" in English ...