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Under the Fifth Republic, elections to the National Assembly have always ceded primacy, constitutionally and institutionally, to the presidential race. Charles de Gaulle ensured that political parties received little or no mention within the Constitution, to suppress the divisive factionalisation of political representation which had proved so deleterious to the Third and Fourth republics (Wright, 1989: 4). The elections which would empower these parties in identifying the governing coalition fared little better constitutionally, receiving a single line in Article 24 noting that they should be by direct universal suffrage, as compared with the presidential election’s more substantial definition in Article 7.
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© 2013 Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi
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Evans, J., Ivaldi, G. (2013). The Legislative Elections of June 2012. In: The 2012 French Presidential Elections. French Politics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011640_8
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