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FranCe**

H.E. Laurent Fabius,
President, Constitutional Council

part i 10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
4 October 1958
CoUNtrY ProfiLE
11. Language (s)
French (official) 100%, declining regional dialects
1. Country Name
France and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsi-
can, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard)
2. Official Name
French Republic 12. Literacy Levels
99.00%
3. Government
Semi-Presidential Republic part ii
LEgisLAtivE sYstEM
4. Head of the Government
Prime Minister – Édouard Philippe
LEGISLATURE
5. Head of the State
President – Emmanuel Macron 1. Structure of National Legislature
Bicameral
6. Capital
Paris 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
Senate and National Assembly
7. Currency
franc
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) nominated
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North Afri- 348 members of the Sénat (Senate) are indirectly
can, Indochinese, Basque minorities elected by an electoral college. 577 members of
the Assemblée Nationale(National Assembly) are
9. Date of Independence and from which Country elected by absolute majority vote.
no official date of independence: 486 (Frankish
tribes unified under Merovingian kingship); 10 Au- 4. Popular House
gust 843 (Western Francia established from the Assemblée Nationale
division of the Carolingian Empire); 14 July 1789
(French monarchy overthrown); 22 September 5. Type of Electoral System
1792 (First French Republic founded); 4 October Two-round system
1958 (Fifth French Republic established)

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