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Conservatives had little time to gloat. The 25.6% vote won by the ruling coalition of neo-Gaullists and center-rightists was a sharp rebuke in contrast to the 39.5% it had scored in last year's legislative polls. Moreover, the government's pro-European stance was undermined by an anti-Maastricht movement headed by conservative Deputy Philippe de Villiers. Last week's wan showing and the fading chances of a leftist victory next year are likely to crack the right's brittle unity. Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur could be joined in the race for the Elysee...
...grace a ceiling. But what he shares with the Emperor is the French monarchical itch to build upon the nation's patrimony. His Grand Louvre renovation, launched in 1981, was once attacked as an exercise in Socialist self-aggrandizement. Today the project is described by Jacques Toubon, the new Gaullist Minister of Culture, as "a historic and cultural space without comparison in the world...
Edouard Balladur got right down to business: at his first Cabinet meeting, the new French Prime Minister ordered his 29 ministers to trim their own operating budgets 10% as a first step toward slashing a projected $55 billion deficit. President Francois Mitterrand named Gaullist Deputy Balladur to lead the government following elections that gave the conservative alliance 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats, leaving Mitterrand's Socialists with only 54 seats...
...very much a self- made man. After graduating from high school, he worked for his father's employer by day and acquired degrees in law and economics at night. Politically, he has operated both sides of the fence. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an adviser to Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and from 1981 to 1984 he served as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Economy and Finance Minister. When in Paris, Delors lives with wife Marie in a five-room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have one married daughter Martine; their only son Jean Paul...
Which is why the most successful left-of-center parties are precisely those that have seized the nationalist issue themselves. Take the French Socialists. There is no great debate in France about its place in the world. The Socialists learned decades ago to accept the Gaullist vision of French grandeur, with all the trappings, military (e.g., the force de frappe) and geopolitical (e.g., the intervention in Chad). Not surprisingly, the Socialists keep winning. This year Francois Mitterrand became the first President of the Fifth Republic to win re-election...