Wednesday, November 5, 2014

France and China

Today in class, these are the notes I took when we saw the powerpoint about France and China.
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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