.UNDER THE modern French commonwealth, established through Charles de Gaulle in 1958, political elections to the nation's presidency and assemblage take place at different ballots. Considering that the constitution was improved in 2000 to shorten the governmental phrase from seven years to five, the legislative election has been actually held a couple of months after the presidential survey. From 2002 to 2022, at five successive legal elections, this provided a federal government of the exact same political stripe as the head of state. France's upcoming parliamentary vote-casting on June 30th and also July 7th, however, may well cause one more spell of what is actually referred to as "cohabitation". This may be under Marine Le Pen's hard-right National Rally (RN), or the newly developed hard-left New Popular Front end. What is cohabitation, and how does it work?