Sixth Republic (France)

This article describes the possibility of a Sixth Republic in France , which constituted one of the topics of the presidential election French of 2007.

History

As of the creation of the Ve République by the Constitution of October 4th, 1958, of the publicity agents think so that could be a VIe Republic .

The first Republic life plans, were formulated by the left, since 1959, in particular by Pierre Mendès France. This idea of institutional rupture is thus old in the political debate; the whole of the left-wing policy small formations having indeed taken position for its installation since several years (Greens as of their creation in 1984, for example…). But the set of themes will be truly started again during creation in 2001 of Convention for the Life Republic (C 6R) by Bastien François and Arnaud Montebourg. This project will be then begun again by right parties (of which in particular UDF), but if unit of small formations are pronounced for adoption of new Constitution, two principal parties (UMP and the PS - in the motion of synthesis adopted at the time of the Congress of Mans, which was thereafter contradicted by the remarks made at the time that the countryside by Ségolène Royal), remain opposite with this idea of institutional rupture.

Fought a long time by the left, the alternation of 1981 consolidates for a time the political regime and institutional of the Ve République

Chronology

Sunday March 18th 2007: in a speech in front of the socialist elected officials and republicans at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, the candidate of the PS Ségolène Royal decides for the first time for one 6th Republic and specifies her project;
Monday March 19th 2007: in front of journalists brought together with her seat of countryside, Ségolène Royal announces that the elected deputies in June, if she were elected with the presidency of the Republic, would be “constituent”;
Tuesday March 20th 2007: at a meeting with Villebon-sur-Yvette (the Essonne), the candidate of UMP Nicolas Sarkozy critical the project of 6th Republic of Ségolène Royal and Francois Bayrou by denouncing a return to the IVe Republic;
Wednesday March 21st 2007: one of the spokespersons of the socialist candidate, Jack Lang, precise with the newspaper Libération in short that being the Constituent , the Parliament would be associated with work; Ségolène Royal in the emission " Questions of info" specify that a committee constituting associating parliamentary, town councilors and citizens would be created to help the Head of the State to the preparation of the new constitutional text; Monde.fr title as for him with 15:45: “Ségolène Royal gives up the project of constituent Assembly”.

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