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Time in office Political party 18 Charles de Gaulle [25] (1890–1970) 8 January 1959 28 April 1969 10 years, 110 days Union for the New Republic (renamed Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic in 1967) 1958, 1965: Leader of the Free French Forces, 1940–1944. President of the Provisional Government, 1944–1946.
The Fifth Republic (French: Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government. It was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic .
Fourth republic ended 4 years, 11 months and 23 days into seven-year term 18: Georges Pompidou: 1747: 19 20 June 1969 – 2 April 1974: Died 4 years, 9 months and 13 days into seven-year term 19: Félix Faure: 1491: 7 17 January 1895 – 16 February 1899: Died 4 years and 30 days into seven-year term 20: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte: 1443: 1
Following a further change, the constitutional law of 2008 on the modernization of the institutions of the Fifth Republic, a president cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac were previously the only presidents to date who have served a full two terms (14 years for the former, 12 years for the latter).
De Gaulle was an excellent manipulator of the media, as seen in his shrewd use of television to persuade around 80% of Metropolitan France to approve the new constitution for the Fifth Republic. He afterwards enjoyed massive approval ratings, and once said that "every Frenchman is, has been or will be Gaullist".
First Secretary (leader) of the Socialist Party: 1971–1981 (resignation, became President of the French Republic in 1981). Reelected in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979. Reelected in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979. From 1962 to 1964 and, again, from 1969 to 1971, he was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France . [ 128 ]
Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing [6] was born on 2 February 1926 in Koblenz, Germany, during the French occupation of the Rhineland. [7] He was the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d'Estaing, a high-ranking civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie (May) Bardoux. [8]
On 6 May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy became the sixth person to be elected President of the Fifth Republic (which was established in 1958), and the 23rd President in French history. The official transfer of power from Chirac to Sarkozy took place on 16 May at 11:00 am (9:00 UTC) at the Élysée Palace , where he was given the authorization codes of ...