National Assembly (French Fourth Republic)
National Assembly Assemblée nationale | |
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Fourth French Republic | |
Type | |
Type | of the French Parliament |
History | |
Founded | 28 November 1946 |
Disbanded | 8 December 1958 |
Preceded by | Constituent Assembly (Provisional Government) |
Succeeded by | National Assembly (Fifth Republic) |
Leadership | |
Structure | |
Seats | 626 |
Political groups | Filled (594)[a]
Vacant (32)
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Length of term | 4 years |
Elections | |
French Republic | |
Website | |
Archives |
The National Assembly (
The institutional nature of the parliamentarian Fourth Republic has been described as a source of political instability by historians and jurists.[1][2] The proportional voting system of the 1946 legislative election led to a "tripartisme" dominated by the Communists, the Socialists and the Popular Republican Movement, that ended up with the step down of communist ministers from the government in 1947.[3]
The electoral law of 9 May 1951 introduced a voting system based on affiliations: it combined proportional representation with the possibility for the ballots to join forces in the counting and distribution of votes. This system was intended to give a stable majority to the government, as well as to reduce the influence of the Communist Party and the Rally of the French People in the parliament.[3]
By creating the French Union, the 1946 constitution allowed a rising number of black deputies from French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa and French West Indies to be elected in the Assembly: from only one Senegalese representative in the Third Republic, black deputies were 21 in 1946 and 30 in 1958, the year of the founding of the Fifth Republic.[4]
History
The Constitution of 1946, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 29 September 1946 and approved by referendum on 13 October 1946,
Composition
Term | Composition |
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I (1946 election) | |
II (1951 election) | |
III (1956 election) |
References
- ISBN 9782724685923.
- ISBN 9782747594141.
- ^ a b "L'instabilité politique - Histoire - Histoire de l'Assemblée nationale - Le Gouvernement provisoire et la Quatrième République (1944-1958) - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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- ^ Foundation for Foreign Affairs (1947). A Constitution for the Fourth Republic. p. 75.
Notes
- ^ Last election of 2 January 1956.
- ^ Due to the Algerian War.