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There was a sense of political irony as well as holy resurrection. Two and a half years ago, in an act of brutal pragmatism, Chirac rejected his own party's Guallist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, in the French presidential elections and threw his support to Giscard, the more likely winner. Now Chirac was promising to lead the Gaullists out of the wilderness, to save France from the man he had helped elect...
JACQUES CHIRAC, 41, Premier. More than a year ago, Chirac, then Minister of Agriculture, went out of his way to praise Giscard as "one of the rare statesmen today." After Pompidou's death, Chirac brashly defied the party barons by scorning the official Gaullist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and coming out openly for Giscard. Whether or not Chirac's defection contributed to Chaban's humiliating defeat at the polls, the barons were angrier than they have been at any time since Giscard abandoned De Gaulle...
...left and right under a national banner of pride and grandeur. For 16 years, that tactic kept the U.D.R. (Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic) Party of Charles de Gaulle in power. But now that the U.D.R. is in disarray after the elimination of Gaullist Jacques Chaban-Delmas in last week's first round of balloting for the presidency, the nation has fallen back into its traditional polarities, with Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, representing the right, and François Mitterrand, 57, leading a Popular Front of leftists that includes the Communist Party...
...have sound reasons for seeking the spoils of Gaullism. It is the Gaullist 15.1% of the vote that Chaban collected that holds the balance of power between Giscard's first-round 32.6% and Mitterrand's 43.2%. For the first time in the campaign, French opinion polls differed last week over the favorite. One showed Giscard edging ahead by 51% to 49%; another found Mitterrand leading by the same margin...
Because Finance Minister Giscard is identified nearly everywhere as the author of the quintessentially Gaullist policy of economic independence from the U.S. or any other country, he seemed the inevitable second-round beneficiary of almost all of the Chaban vote. Mitterrand, however, was not about to let Gaullists forget that he had something to offer them too. "There exist many Frenchmen who identify themselves with the history of Gaullism, but not with the right of big business," he declared. He reminded Gaullists that Giscard was partly responsible for the general's forced retirement in 1969 when Giscard urged...