Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...margins. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-ville, for example, came within 235 votes of victory-and Couve had hardly been a dynamic campaigner. All in all, according to De Gaulle's calculations, a shift of 10,000 votes in the right places would have turned 35 Gaullist losers into winners. "That's not seri- ous," he told his Cabinet. "It is a situation that will redress itself...
...they added new power by forming an electoral pact with François Mitterrand's Federation of Democratic Socialists, the third largest party. Under the pact, the candidate, either Communist or Socialist, who had more votes in the first election or stood the better chance of beating the Gaullist man became the candidate of both leftist parties in the runoff. Accordingly, the Communists withdrew their candidates in 159 districts, while Mitterrand's people withdrew in 124. Few observers expected the alliance of the left to last past the election...
...assume, therefore, that the new Cabinet will be exclusively Gaullist and that it will be cooperative and stable. The results of the election should have a negligible effect on the President's handling of the most important issues since no group in the Assembly is strong enough to challenge his leadership...
...votes than a moderate socialist yet still had no chance of winning even if the other leftists withdrew. The leaders of the left assumed that while most Communists would vote in the second round for a socialist, there were thousands, perhaps millions, of socialists who would vote for a Gaullist before they would vote for a Communist...
...Fifth Republic. What very few observers anticipated was that the rank-and-file of the leftist parties might have the same discipline that their leaders had recently acquired. By pooling the votes of the Federation of the Left and the Communists, the new popular front snatched many supposedly safe Gaullist seats...