POLI 2053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Paul Von Hindenburg, Jacques Chirac, Jerzy Buzek
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1986-1988 france: president francois mitterrand (l) & p. m. jacques chirac (r) 1993-1995 france: president francois mitterrand (l) & p. m. edouard balladur (r) 1997-2002 france: president jacques chirac (r) & p. m. lionel jospin (l) 1997-2001 poland: president alexander kwasniewski (l) & p. m. jerzy buzek (r) Russia does not have (2) and (5) above, for sure, and probably does not actually have (3) either. People in this story (1) charles de gaulle (1890-1970): creator of the current 5th french republic, 1958 (2) boris yeltsin (1931-2007): creator of the russian federation constitution, 1993. Upper house (via 150,000-person electoral college; 6 yrs): senate (348 members) Lower house (elected; 5 yrs): national assembly (577 seats) Head of state (elected; 5 yrs) president francois hollande (socialist) (since may 2012) Head of government (not elected) prime minister manuel valls (socialist) (since 2014) Most recent election to national assembly (june 2012) The major left party, the socialist party, won 280 seats (48. 5% of the seats).
