He was also the first person in the history of the current French Republic to be elected president without support from socialists due to his centrist views. Macron is the first French president ...

Some say modern French history is the story of ... But the keystone to the Fifth Republic’s success was that the president or the prime minister normally commanded a majority.

It’s been a busy year for President Emmanuel Macron ... triggering France’s worst political crisis since the Fifth Republic was founded in 1958. Refusing to name a prime minister from the ...

Here is a short history of the French far-right National Front, whose historic leader and co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday aged 96.The party was later renamed the National Rally (RN) under ...

Turns out, having both is critical to the structure of the French government ... of the Fifth Republic’s constitution. During periods of cohabitation, when the president and parliamentary ...

On Wednesday December 18, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) had his final legal appeal rejected and was definitively sentenced by the Court of Cassation to a three-year jail ...

With the French expressing a ... he described the evolution of the Fifth Republic toward a semi-presidential system, based since 1962 on the election of the president by universal suffrage and ...

This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the french Fifth Republic ... by the grace of a President of the Republic and his Prime Minister.