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The French National Assembly (French: "Assemblée nationale") is one of the two houses of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The other is the French Senate ("Sénat"). The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. ... It has been suggested that Human rights in France be merged into this article or section. ... The President of the French Republic (French: Président de la République française) colloquially referred to as President of France, is Frances elected Head of State and also the ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the Légion dhonneur. ... Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932 in Paris) is a French politician and the current President of the French Republic. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (born 14 November 1953 in Rabat, Morocco) simply known as Dominique de Villepin ( — , is a French diplomat and politician. ... This page is a list of French prime ministers. ... The Parlement of France is bicameral, and consists of the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) and the Senate (Sénat). ... The Senate amphitheater in the Luxembourg Palace The Senate (in French :le Sénat) is the upper house of the Parliament of France. ... A republican guard giving directions to visitors at the front entrance of the Constitutional Council The Constitutional Council (Conseil Constitutionnel) was established by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958. ... The Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation in French) is the main court of last resort in France. ... Political parties in France lists political parties in France. ... France is a representative democracy. ... France is named The Country of the Human Rights. In the Constitution and in the laws, the Human Rights are respected. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... A charter member of the United Nations, France holds one of the permanent seats in the Security Council and is a member of most of its specialized and related agencies. ... In 1589, the four French Secretaries of State became specialized, with one of the secretaries responsible for foreign affairs. ... This is a list of major political scandals in France: 1816 shipwreck of and search for French frigate Medusa off the west coast of Africa Dreyfus Affair, 1894 treason conviction of Alfred Dreyfus - exposed by writer Emile Zola on January 13, 1898 The Ben Barka affair, 1965 disappearance of the... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Download high resolution version (2168x996, 382 KB)View of the Palais Bourbon (French National Assembly), front Copyright (c) 2003 David Monniaux File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (2168x996, 382 KB)View of the Palais Bourbon (French National Assembly), front Copyright (c) 2003 David Monniaux File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... The Parlement of France is bicameral, and consists of the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) and the Senate (Sénat). ... The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. ... The Senate amphitheater in the Luxembourg Palace The Senate (in French :le Sénat) is the upper house of the Parliament of France. ...

The National Assembly consists of 577 members known as députés (deputies), each elected by a single-member constituency. French deputies are elected in each constituency through a two rounds system. It is presided over by a president (currently Jean-Louis Debré), normally from the largest party represented, assisted by vice-presidents from across the represented political spectrum. The term of the National Assembly is five years; however, the President of France may dissolve the Assembly (by i.e.: calling a new election), unless he dissolved it in the preceding year. An example of runoff voting. ... Jean-Louis Debré is a French politician. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ...

The official seat of the National Assembly is the Palais Bourbon on the banks of the river Seine. It is guarded by Republican Guards; huissiers oversee the operations inside the meeting amphitheater and in other facilities. The Palais Bourbon, front The Palais Bourbon, a palace located in Paris, France, is the seat of the French National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French government. ... The Seine (pronounced in French) is a major river of north-western France, and one of its commercial waterways. ... Two republican guards in ceremony uniform in front of a side entrance of the Élysée Palace The Republican Guard mans the honour guards welcoming foreign heads of state or government; here, president Jacques Chirac welcomes then king of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk to the Élysée Palace. ... The chain of a huissier in the French Senate. ...

Deputies, here Martine Billard (Greens) wear a tricolor scarf on official occasions outside of the Assembly, or in public marches

Following a tradition started by the first French National Assembly during the French revolution, the "left-wing" parties sit to the left as seen from the president's seat, and the "right-wing" parties sit to the right, and the seating arrangement thus directly indicates the political spectrum as represented in the Assembly. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1556x1752, 1362 KB) Copyright © 2006 David Monniaux File links The following pages link to this file: DADVSI Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1556x1752, 1362 KB) Copyright © 2006 David Monniaux File links The following pages link to this file: DADVSI Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Députée Martine Billard attending the protest of the 7th of May 2006 against the DADVSI law project. ... Flag Ratio: 2:3 The national flag of France (Vexillological symbol: , known in French as drapeau tricolore, drapeau bleu-blanc-rouge, drapeau français, rarely, le tricolore and, in military parlance, les couleurs) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... A political spectrum is a way of comparing or visualizing different political positions. ...

Relationships with the executive

The President of the Republic can decide to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections. This is meant as a way to resolve stalemates where the Assembly cannot decide on a clear political direction. This possibility is seldom exerced. The last dissolution was by Jacques Chirac in 1997, following from the lack of popularity of prime minister Alain Juppé; however, the plan backfired, and the newly elected majority was opposed to Chirac. Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932 in Paris) is a French politician and the current President of the French Republic. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alain Marie Juppé (born August 15, 1945) is a French politician; among other positions, he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997. ...

The National Assembly can overthrow the executive government (that is, the Prime Minister and other ministers) by voting a motion of censure. For this reason, the prime minister and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the assembly. In the case of a president and assembly from opposing parties, this leads to the situation known as cohabitation. While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, they are purely rhetorical; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the Assembly. There has historically been a single case of a successful motion of censure: on October 5, 1962, against the government of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou. A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Cohabitation in government occurs in semi-presidential systems, such as Frances system, when the President and the Prime Minister come from different political parties. ... Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (July 5, 1911 – April 2, 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. ...

The Government (the Prime Minister and the Minister of relationships with Parliament) sets the priority agenda for the Assembly's sessions, except for a single day each month. In practice, given the number of priority items, it means that the schedule of the Assembly is almost entirely set by the executive; bills generally only have a chance to be examined if proposed or supported by the executive.

Current membership

The last legislative elections, held in June 2002 resulted in the following distribution of seats: These are the results of the French legislative election of 2002 Category: ...

The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire), initially named the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle), and more usually known from its French acronym as simply the UMP, is the main French conservative political party of the right-wing. ... The Union for French Democracy, also known by its French acronym UDF (Union pour la Démocratie Française), is a French centrist political party. ... The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a small conservative, traditionalist and arguably nationalist party, founded on November 20, 1994, with a marked regional implementation in Vendée. ... Liberal Democracy (Démocratie Libérale, DL) was a French political party that advocated laissez-faire economics and whose leader was Alain Madelin. ... The Rally for France and European Independence (Rassemblement pour la France et lIndépendance de lEurope) is a political party in France founded by Charles Pasqua. ... The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), which replaced the SFIO in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ... Les Verts (or The Greens) are an ecologist political party to the left of the political spectrum in France. ... The Left Radical Party (Parti Radical de Gauche or PRG) is a minor French centre-left, social-liberal party with moderate views, formed in 1972 by a split from the Radical Republicans and Radical Socialists Party, once the dominant party of the French left. ... This article is about the French political party, not the WWII French resistance movement Front national. ... CPNT symbol Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition (French: Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions) is a French political party of the right, which aims to defend the traditional values of rural France. ... The Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire) (LCR) is a French Trotskyist political party. ... Workers Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union (Trotskyist) (Union Communiste (Trotskyste)), a French Trotskyist political party, is known (technically, it is the name of the weekly paper edited by the party). ... The Citizen and Republican Movement (Mouvement républicain et citoyen) is a political party in France. ... The National Republican Movement (Mouvement National Républicain or MNR) is a French right-wing political party, created by Bruno Mégret as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pens National Front. ...

See also

• Politics of France
• National Assembly
• List of Presidents of the French National Assembly
• Deputies of the 12th French National Assembly

// French politics under the Fifth Republic After Charles de Gaulle had the constitution of the French Fifth Republic adopted in 1958, France was ruled by successive right-wing administrations until 1981. ... The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. ... This page lists Presidents of the Lower Chamber (or only chamber, as the case may be) of the French parliament. ... List in alphabetical order of the deputies of the 12th French National Assembly (2002- present). ...

External link

• Official website