FRENCH POLITICS,
FINALLY EXPLAINED.
Dissolutions, motions de censure, 49.3, cohabitations. The Fifth Republic runs on procedures that look absurd from outside. Read the news, learn the rules, skip the two-sentence CNN summary.
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