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
Vice President of the Republic of China Vice President of the Republic of China The Vice President of Taiwan , officially the Vice President of the Republic of China(), is the second-highest executive official of Taiwan. Since 1996, the President and the Vice President are elected together by direct plurality voting to a four-year term. Chen Chien-jen is the current Vice President of the Republic of China. Originally established in Nanking, the ROC government , along with its presidency, relocated to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Under Article 49 the Constitution of the Republic of China, in case the office of the President