Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise, however, was the muscular showing of Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of the ultra-rightist, anti-immigrant National Front. With 14.5% of the vote, Le Pen finished just behind former Premier Raymond Barre, with 16.5%, but well ahead of the once mighty Communist Party, whose candidate, Andre Lajoinie, won just 6.8% in the first round. In the process, Le Pen's movement seemed to have replaced the Communists as the major vehicle for protest voters. Le Pen thus became a durable force and pivotal arbiter of France's now divided right...
...professionals estimated that the President could also count on 3 percentage points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...
Immediately after the services meeting, however, the council's executive board, which sets the agenda for each council session, decided to place the anti-sexism bill on this week's agenda...
Mandery said yesterday that he had tried to convince the measure's backers that the "cause "of anti-discrimination would be better served by putting the vote off but that "if they don't buy that, I don't want to stand in their...
...willing to publicly state theiropposition to the resolution, so they tried alittle slick maneuvering to kill the thing," saidLockwood, who sponsored February" anti-final clubresolution...