(HYPER-PRESIDENTIALISM OR REPUBLICAN MONARCHY? FRANCE IN THE OINGOING DEBATE)

Abstract

Republican monarchy, hyper-presidentialism or Jupiterian president? This research article examines, from the political and constitutional legal analysis, the exercise of presidential power in a semi-presidential system such as the French. In the light of the 1958 Constitution and its successive reforms, is it possible for the President to go beyond what the constitutional text establishes, that is, to exercise meta-constitutional powers? In France the President has been characterized in recent decades by occupying an increasingly dominant position in the political landscape, this at the expense not only of the legislative branch, which has historically operated as a sort of officialdom of parties, but above all the Prime Minister, who is the other head of the executive. Therefore, based on documentary technique and following an analytical methodology, a critique of the transfer of the limits of presidential power in France is exposed.