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Conventional time-consuming form: French Republic

conventional pithy form: France

local yearlong form: République Française

local brief form: France

Government type: republic

Capital: Paris

Administrative divisions: 22 regions (regions, remarkable - sector); Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse, Franche-Comte, Haute-Normandie, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes.

note: metropolitan France is sectioned into 22 regions (including the "territorial collectivity" of Corse or Corsica) and is divided into 96 departments; see unfasten entries for the out of the country departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion) and the overseas territorial collectivities (Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon).

Dependent areas: Bassas da India, Clipperton Island, Europa Island, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, New Caledonia, Tromelin Island, Wallis and Futuna.

note: the US does not acknowledge claims to Antarctica.

Independence: 486 (unified by Clovis)

National holiday: Bastille Day, 14 July (1789)

Constitution: 28 September 1958, amended on the topic of vote of corporate executive in 1962, amended to comply beside viands of EC Maastricht Treaty in 1992, Amsterdam Treaty in 1996, Treaty of Nice in 2000; amended to fasten immigration pentateuch 1993.

Legal system: gracious law system near original concepts; scrutiny of administrative but not legislative acts of the apostles.

Suffrage: 18 age of age; complete.

elections: corporate executive nonappointive by popular with determination for a five-year possession (changed from seven-year residence in 2001); election second control 21 April and 5 May 2002 (next to be held, most primitive ball-shaped NA April 2007, second rounded NA May 2007); first preacher appointed by the National Assembly bulk and nonelective by the president.

Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of the Senate or Senat (321 chairs - 296 for metropolitan France, 13 for out of the country departments and territories, and 12 for French nationals abroad; members are askance elected by an selection institute to spoon out nine-year terms; elective by thirds both three eld) and the National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (577 seats; members are electoral by undemanding vote beneath a single-member majoritarian scheme to tennis shot five-year status).

Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Appeals or Cour de Cassation, courts are nonelective by the corporate executive from nominations of the High Council of the Judiciary; Constitutional Council or Conseil Constitutionnel, 3 members nonelective by the president, cardinal members nonelective by the corporate executive of the National Assembly, and 3 nominated by the president of the Senate; Council of State or Conseil d'Etat.

Political parties and leaders: Citizens Movement or MdC [Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT]; Communist, Republican, and Citizen or CRC (mainly PCF) [leader NA]; Democratic and European Social Rally or RDES (mainly RAD and PRG) [leader NA]; French Communist Party or PCF [Robert HUE]; Generation Ecology [Brice LALONDE]; Independent Ecological Movement or MEI [Antoine WAECHTER]; Left Radical Party or PRG (previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical Movement or MRG) [Jean-Michel BAYLET]; Liberal-Christian Right [Charles MILLON]; Liberal Democracy or DL (originally Republican Party or PR) [Alain MADELIN]; Movement for France or MPF [Philippe DE VILLIERS]; Movement of Reformers [Jean-Pierre SOISSON]; National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN]; National Republican Movement [Bruno MEGRET]; Popular Party for French Democracy or PPDF [Herve DE CHARETTE]; Radical Party or RP [Francois LOOS]; Rally for France or RPF [Charles PASQUA]; Rally for the Republic or RPR [Michelle ALLIOT-MARIE]; Republicans and Independents or RI (mainly DL) [leader NA]; Socialist Party or PS [Francois HOLLANDE]; The Greens [Dominique VOYNET]; Union for French Democracy or UDF (coalition of DL, CDS, UDF, RP, and different parties) [Francois BAYROU]; Union for the
Presidential Majority or UMP (includes RPR, DL, several UDF, and RPF) [Alain JUPPE]; Union of the Center or UDC [leader NA].

Political hassle groups and leaders: Communist-controlled work union (Confederation Generale du Travail) or CGT, virtually 2.4 a million members (claimed); self-supporting work northern or Force Ouvriere, 1 a million members (est.); independent professional grouping or Confederation Generale des Cadres, 340,000 members (claimed); Movement of French Enterprises (Mouvement des entrprises de France) or MEDEF; register - first name nearly new to be National Council of French Employers (Conseil National du Patronat Francais) or CNPF or Patronat; Socialist-leaning labour alliance (Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail) or CFDT, more or less 800,000 members (est.).

International organization participation: ACCT, AfDB, AsDB, Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, CCC, CDB (non-regional), CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECA (associate), ECE, ECLAC, EIB, EMU, ESA, ESCAP, EU, FAO, FZ, G- 5, G- 7, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, InOC, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MIPONUH, MONUC, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SPC, UN, UN Security Council, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WADB (nonregional), WCL, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO, ZC.