French presidential elections under the Fifth Republic May. French presidential elections under the Fifth Republic There have been eleven presidential elections in France since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Originally the president was elected by the Collège des Notables (an assembly of "notable electors") that included around 80,000 county and city/town councillors (who had been elected locally). Following the 1962 de Gaulle's constitutional reform (the constitutional Act of November 6, 1962) the president has been directly elected by the people of France. Until the French constitutional revision of September 24, 2000, the president had been elected for a seven-year term. Under this revision the
Elections in the Dominican Republic At the local level, cities government positions elections are held in a nationwide modallity every four years on the third Sunday of February in leap year, coinciding in a single Election Year with the presidential and congressional elections. Elections in the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a unitary state with elected officials at the national and local levels. On a national level, head of state, the President, is elected directly by the people. All members of a national legislature, The Congress of the Republic ("Congreso de la República") divided in two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.