France is a democracy, which means that yes they vote for their president and that the president has to obey the law.
France has the equivalent of the US supreme court of justice, in the Constitution Court. The equivalent of Congress with their parliament and the equivalent of the Senate with their Senate. The president does not rule on his own, he has to contend with all three bodies.
Unlike the US who vote for electors via the outdated electoral college who will vote for the president France is a direct voting system, so the candidate who gets the majority of the votes, wins. The president will then name the prime minister himself.
The president is elected for five years. He can be elected twice, no more.
On voting, yes they have freedom. In some areas more than the US. The US Senate, for one example, is the least representative upper house in the first world. With two senators per state, a resident Wyoming has more than 50 times more say than a resident in California! Since the Senate is critically needed to pass laws, this overall distorts the freedom of the majority.
In the US the choices we have are getting more and more limited. If you don't have money, you have very few choices. Paper or plastic is about as much choice as you get. If you have money then yes, American offers many freedoms and choices but that is a small percent of the population. France has a much larger middle class and much fewer people living in poverty. They have their immigration issues as well particularly Somali and other African immigrants that live in some pretty horrible slums outside of Paris but hardly the issue that we have with poverty in this country. We have people with full-time jobs barely living above the poverty levels.
So in comparison, France has the same freedoms that we in the US have, other than the gun laws. You can still own a gun in France but it must be registered and you cannot buy unlimited amounts of ammo. Its a highly regulated industry and the result is much fewer violent crimes.
France has the equivalent of the US supreme court of justice, in the Constitution Court. The equivalent of Congress with their parliament and the equivalent of the Senate with their Senate. The president does not rule on his own, he has to contend with all three bodies.
Unlike the US who vote for electors via the outdated electoral college who will vote for the president France is a direct voting system, so the candidate who gets the majority of the votes, wins. The president will then name the prime minister himself.
The president is elected for five years. He can be elected twice, no more.
On voting, yes they have freedom. In some areas more than the US. The US Senate, for one example, is the least representative upper house in the first world. With two senators per state, a resident Wyoming has more than 50 times more say than a resident in California! Since the Senate is critically needed to pass laws, this overall distorts the freedom of the majority.
In the US the choices we have are getting more and more limited. If you don't have money, you have very few choices. Paper or plastic is about as much choice as you get. If you have money then yes, American offers many freedoms and choices but that is a small percent of the population. France has a much larger middle class and much fewer people living in poverty. They have their immigration issues as well particularly Somali and other African immigrants that live in some pretty horrible slums outside of Paris but hardly the issue that we have with poverty in this country. We have people with full-time jobs barely living above the poverty levels.
So in comparison, France has the same freedoms that we in the US have, other than the gun laws. You can still own a gun in France but it must be registered and you cannot buy unlimited amounts of ammo. Its a highly regulated industry and the result is much fewer violent crimes.
(Zuma is the beach town after Malibu) they only have porta pots. So that isn't much different than what you're saying.
