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...Poher, on the other hand, can assemble a large anti-Gaullist coalition - such as defeated the referendum - his current 35% reading might translate into a majority, as those voters who backed candidates eliminated in Round 1 choose between the two survivors. He already has the endorsement of his own centrist party; besides Defferre, the pivotal backers that could broaden his base include former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a socialist, and former Finance Minister Antoine Pinay, a conservative - both of whom paid calls on him last week. The Communists have not fielded a presidential candidate since 1946, and their...
...approach on the hustings led newsmen to call him a French Harry Truman; it also helped to galvanize middle-class discontent into a decisive "no" vote. "Because one man resigns," Poher insisted in town after town, "France will not be consumed by chaos." He has been suggested as a centrist candidate for President because of his performance. He maintains that "I am not ambitious" and says that he would agree to run only if he got the kind of draft that is now unlikely in view of factional bickering in the centrist parties where his strength would lie. Unless...
...Senate Alain Poher, 60, to the interim presidency of the Republic. Under the constitution that De Gaulle himself created, Poher must call an election in no sooner than 20 and no later than 35 days for a new and permanent French President. Poher, a member of the Centrist Party, might be a candidate, as might Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet, a dedicated European integrationist, and Communist Jacques Duclos among others. But the most formidable candidate was likely to be Georges Pompidou, 57, long De Gaulle's righthand man and Premier until last July, when the general peremptorily and gracelessly sacked...
...must stamp his signature on the times immediately or risk losing forever the chance to do so. Nixon construes his circumstances and opportunities differently?and with cause. He wants what one adviser calls "studious momentum." He is a minority President who faces an opposition majority on Capitol Hill, a centrist Republican who confronts a political left and right, both flaming with angry frustration...
Perhaps the Socialists, who only six years ago commanded 15% of all French votes, will rise again. The practical effect of the opposition's collapse, however, is the demise of any remaining parliamentary democracy in France, at least for the moment. That development alarms France's Centrist Party, whose leaders feel that the opposition's impotency reflects a deeper ill. As they see it, French society is losing its cohesion and direction. The Centrist publication Facts and Causes, for example, writes that "in reality, the malaise is twofold." Its reasoning: "The failure of the government has caused...