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This decade Le Canard has been more enterprising. It revealed that the Gaullist resistance hero Jacques Chaban-Delmas had used legal loopholes to avoid paying income tax for three years, virtually killing his bid for the presidency in 1974. The Duck also unearthed some questionable financial dealings by the murdered Prince Jean de Broglie, a man with close ties to the Giscard administration, and printed the income tax dossiers of both Giscard and Aviation Tycoon Marcel Dassault. The government paid Le Canard a bumbling tribute one night when its agents were discovered in the paper's offices trying...
...Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française. Instead, there was a dramatic contest over the presidency involving Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Giscard. Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63. Although Chirac instructed his Gaullist Assembly members to vote for Faure, at least twelve of them defected, thus giving Chaban victory. Chirac, who still hopes to become President of the Republic when Giscard's term expires in 1981, suffered a severe setback. The Gaullist leader had been...
...politicians expected Chaban's comeback. He had held the National Assembly presidency for more than a decade before becoming Premier under President Georges Pompidou in 1969. Unceremoniously dumped by Pompidou after newspapers disclosed that he had, legally, paid no income tax for four consecutive years, he retired from national politics as mayor of Bordeaux. A proponent of the social reforms backed by Giscard, he can now offer substantial help by mustering parliamentary support behind the presidential policies. Chaban shares Giscard's vision of a France in which the left-right polarization that has divided the country...
There was speculation about whom Giscard would name Premier when the National Assembly reopens April 3. Early on, the rumors favored Health Minister Simone Veil, who the polls say is France's most popular political figure, and two prominent Gaullists, ex-Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte. By midweek, however, Elysée sources were confidently predicting that Giscard would reappoint Raymond Barre. After all, it was no coincidence that the three goals of Giscard's new administration-economic recovery, social justice and bureaucratic reform -were spelled out in the presidential address in exactly...
Chirac's political turnabouts-first against Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Gaullist candidate in 1974, then against President Valery Giscard d'Estaing-have earned him a reputation as an opportunist. Chaban still privately refers to him as a "traitor." Others have called him "Jacques the Knife," and some cynical members of Giscard's Independent Republicans characterized the dramatic rally at which he launched his renamed party as "smacking of Nuremberg." Those who know Chirac well-including foreign diplomats-are positive he is no "closet fascist," though he is staunchly conservative. He is against nationalization and NATO, for free...