A Triumph for the French Left as the Fifth Republic Lurches Into the Unknown. A shock win for the left leaves Macon’s alliance in second and Le Pen in third. La France Insoumise - LFI - (France ...

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

Indeed, the undemocratic 1958 constitution of the Fifth Republic grants the president vast powers in terms of the launching of war, police repression, and dictatorship.

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

Police and judges raided France's far-right National Rally (RN) headquarters as part of an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations. View on euronews ...

The headquarters of the French right-wing National Rally party were raided Wednesday morning in Paris in what its leader is calling a "spectacular and unprecedented" harassment operation. "Since 8:50 ...

In 1964, then-député François Mitterrand published an essay declaring his opposition to the Fifth Republic, arguing that the institutions had been framed for a single leader, Charles de Gaulle.

The French Fifth Republic, founded by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, is the most successful state in French history, suffering neither the capricious despotism of the various French monarchical dynasties ...

As the incredible returns continued to pour in last week from the outer precincts of French power, the sweep of Charles de Gaulle’s triumph increased. In Martinique in the Caribbean the ratio ...