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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Compiled by Richard Nelsson

The birth of France’s Fifth Republic – archive, 1958

Charles de Gaulle gives a press conference, 10 May 1958.
Charles de Gaulle gives a press conference, 10 May 1958. Photograph: Daniele Darolle/Sygma/Getty Images

The Fifth Republic, created by Charles de Gaulle and Michel Debré, operates as a hybrid constitution that has a directly elected five-year presidency and a parliamentary system. It gives a president the right to dissolve the national assembly, hold new parliamentary elections, change prime ministers and reshuffle the government.

Editorial: Fifth Republic

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