France :
- Has a republic government and a semi-presidential system (has a president and a prime minister)
- President Francois Hollande and Prime minister Manuel Valls are the leaders
- Government of France is divided into executive, legislature, and judicial branches
- Francois Hollande is part of the socialist party. He's going to run again in 2017
- The prime minister is appointed by the President
- Manuel Valls was born in Spain and obtained French nationality when he was 20
- A republic is a state where the majority of the power is in the people who vote and are represented by the people they choose
- France's present government has existed for 56 years
- To get rid of their leader they can throw them out of office but they have to prove that the leader did something wrong
- The socialist party is the first most popular party in France and the Union for a popular movement (the UMP) is the second
- The leader of the UMP is Jean-Francois Cope
- Nicolas Sarkozy was elected as the president but was defeated by Francois Hollande
- The next election is in 2017
- Hollande , Sarkozy and many others are potential runners for the next election
China :
- Is a communist state (the government controls the economy)
- The president is Xi Jinping
- He's the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the communists party's founding fathers
- A president in China serves for 10 years and Xi Jinping has been in office for 2 years
- They can impeach, assassinate, or re-elect to get rid of a leader
- Impeachment is when an official is accused of unlawful activity
- Assassination is the action of killing someone
- Re-election is to elect for another term in office
- Xi Jingping got a total of 2,937 votes
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