Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several days after the election, Giscard toyed with the idea of forming a new centrist "liberal" party aimed at blocking Chirac's relentless drive for power. But Giscard's U.D.F. followers in parliament, anxious to hold their seats, seemed far more interested in making a deal with Chirac than in sharing the ex-President's martyrdom. Said one U.D.F. deputy: "I can understand the President's pain and recriminations. But right now we have to keep our fists in our pockets and try to save the house...
...office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic Labor Party after four decades of growth in Sweden's social experiment. Last week the only alternative to the socialists, the ruling three-party coalition of Centrist Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin, was in trouble. Once again the bedeviling issue of tax reform was to blame...
...being effectively challenged from both the left and the right. On the left, his closest rival, perennial Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand, 64, a narrow loser in the presidential election of 1974 and parliamentary vote of 1978, has been gnawing away at Giscard's centrist support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger...
...election were held now, the latest poll suggests, astonishingly, that the new party could win 35% of the popular vote vs. 29% for Labor and 27% for the Tories. An alliance with the centrist Liberal Party would give the S.D.P. 46% support, enough to guarantee a sizable majority in the 635-seat House of Commons. Thatcher does not want an early election, since both she and Labor Party Leader Michael Foot are showing the lowest personal standings for any Prime Minister and party leader since the war. "Every day I pray that Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot will...
...centrist force is born