The many powers of the French president • FRANCE 24 English 

I think of the french presidency as less of a temporary monarchy and more of a temporary dictatorship.

I love watching election docu's like these. It shows so much of a country's history.

Very useful video I'm a student leader and we're currently writing a new Constitution. I was assigned to a high responsibility for this, I have patterned our new Constitution after the 5th French Republic My first draft was actually a Parliamentary Democracy however, majority of our members doesn't want a ceremonial President but a powerful one yet we wanted to have an Assembly - a parliament So I said, then if that's the case, we should have a SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL set-up Best of wishes to our final draft, we are expecting our new Constitution to be ratified before this academic year end

English here. Cheers. Very useful info 🙂

As an Aussie I really appreciate this video Ps sorry for the subs 😂

Then what does the parliament actually do?

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It sounds like the French President has more power than the President here (US). On one hand, this is intentional on our end due to the principle of separation of powers; we don't want our President to have too much power. On the OTHER hand, it means that the President can be crippled, policy-wise, if Congress is controlled by the opposing party. Our President has no power to bypass Congress except through executive orders, and this pretty much always goes through the courts (as it should) before it can or can't become policy.

the only European country not occupied by US troops.

Please France get your King back.