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Hi. I have some ???. Please help here. 1. How is a new leader selected in France??? 2. How often is a leader selected??? 3. What unusual laws do they have that we should be aware of??? 4. What types of homes do they have??? Thanks a million!!!!!!!

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1. Well, french leaders are elected by universal election : one sunday in april (for example April 22th 2007, last election) every french citizen (above 18 and with the right to vote) go to the town council and vote for their two favorites between every political parties (a dozen of them). And in may (May 6th 07), we revote, this time we have to choose between the two candidates who stayed in league. We elect president every 5 years (since 2002, before that it was 7 years). Unusual laws... I don't know... well, people who went in prison cannot vote or be candidate, it's a punishment which is effective during some time. Or you meant in general? Then we have different strange and old laws, for example you can't spit out on the street and women cannot wear pants (it's a very old law and nobody follows it but it was'nt erased, we just forgot it). Every mayor can make a law of his own for his town (it's not a governmental law, just a city decision but it's official the same) so there is strange laws, in a city named Sarpourenx, people don't have the right to die because there is no more space in the cemetery! And as for our homes, I don't really know what you're talking about, we have houses like everybody, I don't know, that's a weird thing to ask.