The government of France is a semi-presidential system. The government of France is based on the French Constitution of the fifth Republic. The nation declares itself as "an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic" in the French Constitution of the fifth Republic.
The divisions of the national government of France are the executive, a legislative and a judicial branch. The President of France possesses a degree of direct executive power. His appointee, the Prime Minister has the maximum executive powers. When the President chooses the Prime Minister, he must have the confidence of the National Assembly. The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament. The Prime Minister of France is always elected from the majority party of the lower house of the Parliament.
The Parliament is made up of the National Assembly and the Senate. The various functions of the Parliament include passing of statutes and votes on the budget. The Parliament checks the various actions of the Executive through formal questioning on the floors of the National Assembly and the Senate. The Parliament also establishes commissions of enquiry.
The Constitutional Council checks the constitutionality of the statutes. The President of the Republic, the President of the Senate and the President of the National Assembly appoint the members of this body.
The independent judiciary of France is based on civil law system. This system evolved from the Napoleonic Code. The judiciary is divided into two branches. One is the judicial branch that deals with civil law and criminal law. The second is the administrative branch that deals with the appeals against executive decisions. The government of France includes various bodies that detect abuses of power.
This European nation is a unitary state. The various legal subdivisions of the country are the regions, departments and communes. The national of France is prohibited from intruding into the normal legal operations of the various legal subdivisions of the country.
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