.UNDER THE modern-day French state, started through Charles de Gaulle in 1958, elections to the nation's presidency and parliament happen at different ballots. Considering that the constitution was actually upgraded in 2000 to lessen the presidential term coming from seven years to 5, the parliamentary vote-casting has been kept a number of months after the governmental poll. From 2002 to 2022, at five successive legal vote-castings, this supplied a government of the very same political red stripe as the president. France's upcoming legislative vote-casting on June 30th and also July 7th, having said that, may effectively bring about another streak of what is known as "cohabitation". This could be under Marine Le Pen's hard-right National Rally (RN), or the recently developed hard-left New Popular Front. What is cohabitation, and just how performs it operate?