Fifth Republic

American  

noun

1. the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.

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Fifth Republic British  

noun

1. the French republic established in 1958 as the successor to the Fourth Republic. Its constitution is characterized by the strong position of the president

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Example Sentences

According to his one-time adviser, the veteran essayist and confidant of presidents Alain Minc, Macron "must now go down as the worst president of the Fifth Republic".

From BBC

Lecornu’s benighted tenure—the shortest in the history of France’s modern Fifth Republic—is a measure of how a political system that was once a cornerstone of stability in Europe has fallen into disarray.

From The Wall Street Journal

General Charles de Gaulle, the World War II hero and architect of the Fifth Republic, designed the presidency to govern with the backing of a majority in the National Assembly.

From The Wall Street Journal

So when Macron dissolved the National Assembly in the summer of 2024, voters responded by electing the most fractious parliament in the Fifth Republic’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal

In an effort to pull France out of its fiscal spiral, Macron is exhausting a battery of tools available to him under the constitution as guarantor of France’s modern Fifth Republic.

From The Wall Street Journal