.UNDER THE contemporary French state, founded through Charles de Gaulle in 1958, political elections to the country's presidency and assemblage happen at different votes. Given that the constitution was improved in 2000 to shorten the governmental phrase coming from seven years to five, the parliamentary election has been actually kept a number of months after the presidential survey. From 2002 to 2022, at 5 successive legislative political elections, this supplied an authorities of the same political stripe as the head of state. France's upcoming parliamentary political election on June 30th and July 7th, however, may properly trigger another spell of what is referred to as "common-law marriage". This may be under Marine Le Pen's hard-right National Rally (RN), or the recently created hard-left New Popular Front. What is common-law marriage, as well as just how does it function?