Comments by "雪桜川" (@yuki-sakurakawa) on "Is France Heading for a Sixth Republic?" video.

@Seth9809 The cabinet in the US is powerless. What the president says goes. If the secretary or secretaries don't like it, they resign. At least in the parliamentary system, especially with proportional representation, multiple party leaders can force the prime minister to drop something or they'll threaten to resign, which threatens the PM's job.
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J'aime la démocratie. 🤨⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
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No mechanism for a new constitution, but likely through a constitutional convention... French military: 🤣😂😅🤣😉🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
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Exactly. Nothing says democracy like giving more power to the executive. "I love democracy" (insert smiling palpatine). The 6th republic would do well as a parliamentary system or even better as a Swiss federal system with each of its 18 regions (or each of its 96 smaller regions called departments) becoming semi-sovereign cantons with the federation of France. The 7 member collective executive council couldn't fire each other and would be comprised of leaders from different parties and regions. The symbolic presidency of the council would rotate. Each canton would mirror this too.
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@Tenvalmestr Guess that's why sweden, denmark, UK, new zealand, Norway, etc have all switched to semi presidential systems 😂
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 @inesis "pas encore." Maître Jedi Windu
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@TimeMakerDotPH If the national Assembly were 100 members or even 50 members, you could use natural threshold (1% and 2%, respectively). Personally, I think more choice is better, as long as the politicians know to play well together. Maybe the Swiss system can allow both. For comparison, the Swiss Federal Assembly (both houses of parliament) have 11 different parties represented. 4 of those are represented in the federal council (collective executive).
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@hungrymusicwolf Exactly. The us is the only country to use that form of govt that hadn't devolved to dictatorship at some point in its history.
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@Tenvalmestr Not to be mean, but this 5th republic isn't that old, so there is no historic political culture. I mean, using that metric, France should revert back to an absolute monarchy under Louis XVIII or something. Times change. What was tolerated 1000 years ago, 100 years ago, and even 10 years ago won't be tolerated now.
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@rolodexter A monarch also provides stability, but I'd hardly want him in charge of politics. An elected monarch is worse, because they think they can do whatever because the people supposedly support him (only just half, if that).
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@OscarOSullivan I do like the way the Irish president can send to the Supreme Court for judicial review on a questionable bill and to send to the people for a referendum. All parliamentary systems should explicitly give that duty to the head of state (president or monarch). It is a check on power.
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@IkeOkerekeNews The parliamentary system, particularly with proportional representation and a monarch head of state, is the most stable form of democracy. Proportional representation allows multiple parties to be in govt (executive) and puts extra checks on the prime minister, and it allows more voices of the people. Monarch head of state prevents prime ministers/chancellors from taking over that office because they aren't part of the Royal dynasty, and it keeps the head of state from assuming powers that should be closer to the people and more easily changed (eg prime minister, cabinet, and parliament). Imagine the outrage if King Charles had the same powers as the French president. It should be the same for an elected "monarch". Also, the parliamentary checks and balances are more dynamic: 1) the cabinet can remove the pm if disagrees, or they resign and new elections called 2) the party removes the pm if he goes against the party platform 3) the parliament can remove the pm by a confidence vote 4) the head of state can remove if going against the constitution (he/she is the actual commander in chief, not the pm)
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@idrk7509 Isn't the FEDERAL republic of Germany smaller? 😋
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Or could be Emperor Macron (though he could Institute a parliamentary system as politically active monarchs aren't really tolerated in polite society anymore).
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French president is one of the most powerful... Finnish president who attended NATO joining ceremony instead of the prime minister: 🇫🇮 😶🫥😶‍🌫️ American president who can just nuke anyone and send troops anywhere in the world without american people even knowing they're there, and spy on allies and make them apologize, and topple foreign govts: 🫅🤠🚀🚀🚀🛰🛰🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
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