National Assembly (French Fourth Republic)

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National Assembly

Assemblée nationale
Fourth French Republic
Type
Type
History
Founded28 November 1946 (1946-11-28)
Disbanded8 December 1958 (1958-12-08)
Preceded byConstituent Assembly
(Provisional Government)
Succeeded byNational Assembly
(Fifth Republic)
Leadership
Vincent Auriol, SFIO
(1946–1947)
Édouard Herriot, PRRS
(1947–1954)
André Le Troquer, SFIO
(1954–1955; 1956–1958)
Structure
Seats626
Political groups
Filled (594)[a]
  COM–RP (150)
  SFIO (94)
  UDSR–RDA (19)
  PRRS (58)
  RS (22)
  RGR–CR (14)
  MRP–IOM (83)
  IPAS–PAYSAN (95)
  UFF (52)
  Independent (7)

Vacant (32)

  Vacant (1)
  French Polynesia (1)
  French Algeria (30)[b]
Length of term
4 years
Elections
French Republic
Website
Archives

The National Assembly (

Fourth Republic, with the Council of the Republic being the upper house. It was established by the Constitution of 1946, dissolved by the Constitution of 1958 and replaced with a new chamber
bearing the same name.

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,

Third Republic
, became the National Assembly.

Composition

Term Composition
I (1946 election)
II (1951 election)
III (1956 election)

References

  1. ISBN 9782724685923
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  2. ISBN 9782747594141
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  3. ^ 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.
  4. doi:10.3406/rfsp.1958.392489
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  5. ^ Foundation for Foreign Affairs (1947). A Constitution for the Fourth Republic. p. 75.

Notes

  1. ^ Last election of 2 January 1956.
  2. ^ Due to the Algerian War.
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