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  • Not every system fits every country.

    France had republics before the current 5th that had the president as more of a ceremonial role. But it did not work for us, and both the third and fourth republics ended up with political instability and governments falling one after the other.

    The 5th republic purposefully gave more power to the president, to remediate the political instability that France had seen with the previous systems. It works.

    No democratic system is perfect. The one Greece has, per your comment, sounds great in theory. But the day where the 3 top parties can’t come to an agreement, and the elections don’t change the outcome, you’ll have an extended period of instability where the government is unable to do anything. And that is absolutely awful for a country.

    It is great that Greece isn’t encountering these issues. But France has, and the current system is a fix to that. Let’s not repeat bad History by reverting to a system we know does not work for us.



  • It’s more complicated than that. Don’t get me wrong, I voted for the left block and was pissed they didn’t get to form a government. But it is more complicated than that.

    The president has to pick a government that will be able to pass laws with the vote of the parliament. While the left block had the plurality, the rest of the parliament would likely not have voted their policies. Picking a government that would satisfy the rest of the parliament was the best move for stability and to have a government able to do something.

    That’s not anti democratic. And that’s actually the system that is used in most representative democracies, in different forms, which always summarises to: Head of state picks a government that has the most chances to be accepted by the parliament.