Word: centerleft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antigovernment violence since civilian rule was restored 18 months ago. The rioters were protesting President Jose Sarney's decision to increase taxes and prices on such items as cars, electricity, gasoline and cigarettes. The measures, announced just six days after last month's landslide election victory by Sarney's centerleft Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, were aimed at cooling off an overheating economy...
...round of hard-nosed opposition would help them pull themselves together." In the longer run, Mitterrand may have to change the electoral strategy that brought him to power. To find a parliamentary majority in the difficult 1986 elections, the French President must seek new allies, presumably on the centerleft...
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