Depressingly spot-on. Although one peculiarity of the V republic is missing : it is in theory possible for the elected president and the elected parlement to h

Depressingly spot-on. Although one peculiarity of the V republic is missing : it is in theory possible for the elected president and the elected parlement to have different political colors. It is much rarer now that the term of both president and MP are 5 years long, and both elections happen a few month. But three times in my lifetime, we have been in so called "cohabitation", where a "modern-democracy"-styled prime minister was governing, under the theorical authority of the elected monarch. This really was not the worst of time. It would have actually been a very nice way to govern, if the PMs had not caught delusion of "grandeur" at the end of their terms. I would vote for separzting the elections, and barring any PM from running for president.