drow zelensky: Re: why you really can't use France as an overall example for how to do things in other countries, there is also this

Re: why you really can't use France as an overall example for how to do things in other countries, there is also this

It's a very weird mode of governance that I don't entirely get and you need to go full Pepe Silvia on to truly understand because basically nobody besides those two does it.

You know what we call what the French call "cohabitation" everywhere else? Nothing, because it's not a relevant problem.

Ignore what the wiki page on semi-presidential republics says. As a Lithuanian, I do not care what the polsci wonks think, we are not a semi-presidential republic in the same way that France and Ukraine are.

A Lithuanian Prime Minister with a strong enough majority can govern completely disregarding the President if they wish. A French one absolutely cannot.

That at least is pretty similar to what we have in the US when the president and Congress are split?

Yes. But they are quite unusual in that their president is weaker (but also stronger, sometimes)

aka “cohabi-tension”

we might as well use tea leaves to predict the outcome of an election

6th Republic when

They should just reset to the 4th's constitution so they can make it the 4th again for shits and giggles

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