AH Challenge: Make the French Fourth Republic Survive

Pretty straight foward. Find a way to allow the French Fourth Republic to survive to the modern day without any significant changes to the Constitution (i.e. a strong Presidency).
 
The problems that brought down the 4th Republic were problems that had already begun to corrode the 3rd Republic's stability. It also didn't help that the post-war period for France was particularly difficult, with its two most important colonies rising in open rebellion one after the other.

I suppose, though, that a forceful enough persona could have righted the ship of state and sailed them through the Algerian crisis without needing a constitutional reform, but that's mostly a matter of hand-waving someone like that in to power who isn't de Gaulle.
 
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