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  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 months ago

    Wait wait so the current government can just choose to indefinitely ignore election results? Nice democracy you got there France

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Yes because the 5th republic’s constitution was written by degaulle post war which give some veto power as the president.

      But let’s not blame De gaule for all the ills in the world all the parties uses anti-democratic means to advance using the constitution.

      Mitterand from the socialist party will prop up the rightwing to steal votes from the communists or even the center right in elections.

      The constitution is not working but no winner is going to dissolve the means in which they use to come into power.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        But let’s not blame De gaule for all the ills in the world

        If the opportunity exists we should take it.

        • arymandias [none/use name]
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          4 months ago

          He basically took the Weimar constitution because it succeeded at its main goal of stopping the communists from ever taking power.

      • pbbp [tous, any]@jlai.lu
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        4 months ago

        It's actually a lot worse, the immediate post-ww2 period was still the 4th republic. The 5th republic's constitution was made in 1958, after a coup during the Algerian war of independance led by french settlers and the army that put De Gaulle back in power.