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Electoral reform has always been a hot issue in France. In fact, since the Third Republic, France has frequently changed her electoral system in the last hundred years. The Fifth Republic is no exception, with two recent changes.
In 1985, the French favorite, the single-member constituency system with two-ballot majority representation was replaced by the proportional representation (PR) within each department, at the initiative of socialist government. But this PR system was used only once in the 1986 election, because the winner, the conservatives immediately changed it. Then the single-member constituency system was restored.
In Japan, there has been a marked increase in interest in the issue of electoral reform in recent years. This article tries to provide some data for a discussion on this subject by analyzing the process as well as the logic and content of the electoral reforms in the Fifth Republic of France.
