The French presidential of 1958, the first of the French Fifth Republic, took place on December 21, 1958. This was the only French presidential election by the electoral college (gathering the members of the French parliament, the members of Conseil Général, the members of the overseas assemblies, more than 80,000 mayors, deputy mayors and city council members). The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An electoral college is a set of electors who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect someone to a particular office. ...
This could be no truer than in the French political system and, in particular, the Frenchpresidentialelection of 1981.
This was not the case, however, during the 1981 Frenchelections.
The incumbent seemed to have been cursed with many political misfortunes during his Presidential term; these crippling situations included internal matters that he could have controlled (and chose to ignore), and external forces that were beyond the incumbent’s control.
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