What is the current political system in Paris, France?

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Vladimir ILL

I hate wikipedia - knowledge fast-food

French system is basically western-democratic, parliamentary - The Constitution is written, on the basis of the DÃ©claration universelle des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, which prevails on any other rule -

our Republic is the Vth (fifth) one - since 1958 - in 1962 it was decided that the President of t he Republic should be elected on a direct popular poll system -
So that the prevalence of the first minister is not what it is in a "standard" parlaimentary system -

Otherwise the Parliament - Senate + AssemblÃ©e nationale is weaker - and the initiative of law projects belons at least as much as government's one -
The governement can create its own dÃ©crets, without any consultation of the Parliament -

Economically, still today public authorities have a strong initiative power and intervene if necessary in many aspects of the industrial and financial life.

In few words the system is strong - survived many deep crisis - and one often says that it is somewhere between the
US presidential system, interventionism non included, and classical parlaimentary systems - such as they work in Italy, or Germany -
Scandinavian countries, Benelux and UK are not democracies.
For the know-all downthumbs they are parliamentary monarchies.

Rosebud

Hi, do you want I tell you what is the political system in Paris, (by the mayor Bertrand Delanoe) or the French political system ? If you are curious about the "French Republic" above you can read very good answers.
Sorry, I understood, Paris's political system. It's not same.
The Mayor's Bertrand Delanoe politic about bikes :
It cannot have escaped his notice that in a city full of striking public-sector workers, mayor Bertrand DelanoÃ« is riding a wave of popularity since Decauxâ€™s vÃ©los were wheeled out for pedestrians several months ago. â€œThe Parisian voters think he has changed their lives,â€. The 25,000 bikes, free to use for the first half hour, can be returned to a rack anywhere in the city. Free or cheap bikes for all is not a new idea. But Delanoe appears to have got over the old problem of theft with the introduction of credit-card deposits after a pilot scheme in Vienna had 2,000 bicycles disappear within 48 hours. Of course,he has something of a vested interest in getting urbanites to leave the car at home. Jean-Charles Decaux jointly runs JC Decaux, responsible for supplying â€œstreet furnitureâ€ â€“ bus shelters, rubbish bins, news kiosks and now bicycles to cities all over the world â€“ as long as they can invariably paper them with advertising at the same time.
The Mayor don't like cars in the city ! !

ChocoBN

paddington's answer is excellent except for his last comments about parliamentary monarchies not being democratic. just because they are not republics does not mean they are not democracies. people in those countries cannot choose their head of state like in france but they can choose their head of government. china is a republic yet it's not a democracy.

I'm no expert but the french system is a democratic republic, it involves a Constitution similar to that of the USA whereby the rights of the citizen are addressed. Nicolas Sarkozy is currently the president.

...it also involves the french frequently striking whenever they disagree with government action. As a result, they tend to get more say in how the country is run generally than other, more silent nations.

skoobysnaks1999

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Government

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