An End to France’s Fifth Republic Edges Closer
A system of checks and balances designed to shut out the far right has instead created paralysis.
Protesters during a French workers’ union-organized demonstration in central Paris on Oct. 2.
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For someone who portrayed himself as a modern-day Charles de Gaulle, there’s a certain irony in Emmanuel Macron’s drawn-out political demise bleeding away the very constitution his political hero founded.