f   > forced france to change the election system to keep him out of power. not quite. in the 80s the socialists in power changed the election system, making seat allocation more proportional to the votes, in part to let his party take seats in the parliament away from the bigger conservative party.  then when this conservative party got back in power they changed the rule back to what it was before to get those seats back. he never won enough, with either set of rules, to be in government himself.
France