>>>I'm sure they are extending the presidential terms from 4 years to 6 simply because they love democracy. :o)
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>>This awakens my curiosity. In these six years of France-bashing, nobody had the imagination to call them non-democratic because their presidential term is seven years. The guys have got a free pass for no good reason... except that they switched from 7 to 5 years in 2002. But then, I'm still amazed that nobody had the presence of mind to call 7 years of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and 14 years of François Mitterand what they were - pure antidemocratic dictatorship.
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>You're calling France a dictatorship because their presidential term is longer than ours?

Just taking a logical conclusion - if Russia's move from 4 to 6 years is somehow proof that they aren't democratic, then France's 7 years must have been even worse.