By J. Gaffney
Gaffney analyzes how de Gaulle got here to strength in 1958: The drama surrounding the Fourth Republic's cave in, and the focal point upon a good person intended that de Gaulle was once in a position to confer a selected sort of management at the 5th Republic. The 5 Presidents who got here after him have every one capitalized all alone political 'persona.'
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In the Fourth Republic’s constitution, the section on the presidency came only sixth. In the Fifth it came first, immediately after the section on ‘De la souveraineté’. This discursive arrangement of the Fifth Republic’s constitution was far more telling (though constitutionally inconsequential) than any of the issues debated. 27 For example, and here we come back again to the crucial role of (ambivalent) language, the President of the Fifth Republic – like the President of all republics, has as his/her mission to maintain the integrity of the state, and of the nation, to uphold national independence, and the constitution itself, and ensure that the state’s institutions function.
It remains within republicanism generally, but its modalities are fundamentally altered. The dramatically heightened level at which political relationships are imagined and enacted through symbolic politics is carried into the new republic. 26 This is something of a puzzle: that the architect of a constitution would treat the constitutional settlement he had striven for, for almost 20 years, with a cavalier attitude, so that it took on new characteristics. The answer lies in the constitution’s introduction, that is to say that Algeria and the collapse of the Fourth Republic provided a dramatic context in which the persona now in the frame would have relative freedom of action that would have far-reaching constitutional and political consequences.
On 21 December to crown this tumbling series of victories, de Gaulle was elected President by the new electoral college of 80,000 elected ‘notables’. 33 The UFD candidate, an academic, did rather well considering the ramshackle UFD had only gained 1 per cent in the legislative elections, an early though forgotten sign of how presidential elections can amplify a vote. But the hour was de Gaulle’s. A year earlier he had himself assumed he would never return to power. On 8 January power was formally handed over to him by the outgoing President Coty, whose decision the previous May had helped bring de Gaulle to power.