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...same time, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 45, the ambitious leader of the Gaullist Party, ceased to be the dominant influence within the center-right coalition. Indeed, one of the election's surprises was that the Union pour la Démocratie Française, a loose group of parties supporting Giscard, had polled a remarkable 6 million votes, only 1.1% less than Chirac's party, thereby breaking the Gaullists' five-year stranglehold on the National Assembly. As a result, Giscard, 51, emerged as both the master of present-day French politics and the architect of the nation...
...means to pursue his oft-repeated determination to "modernize French political life." This meant that the President intended to substitute a political consensus for the left-right polarization that has characterized French history. But ever since his 1974 election, Giscard has been thwarted. On the one hand, a strong Gaullist contingent rejected his proposals for reform; on the other, the leftist opposition consistently refused Giscard's overtures, in the hope of gaining power itself...
...coalition, confounding pollsters and causing discreet jubilation in most democratic capitals of the world. When those votes were counted, the Socialist, Communist and Left Radical alliance had failed to gain a majority, lagging 1.2%, or 334,213 votes, behind the center-right coalition headed by Giscard and Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac. A number of ultraleftist parties not affiliated with the coalition polled 952,661 votes. Although the Socialist-Communist alliance could conceivably recoup its losses and in the second round gain a small majority of seats in the National Assembly, its chances of radically transforming French society were now remote...
...other side of the barricades, the center-right parties scarcely experienced a first-round landslide. Of the 46.5% total, Chirac's Gaullists won 22.6%, giving the rightists a tiny edge of 1,320 votes over the Socialists as France's leading party. At the same time, Giscard, Chirac's rival in the center-right coalition, scored a modest success as a result of the surprisingly strong 21.5% showing of the Union pour la Démocratie Française a group of three small non-Gaullist parties that the President stitched together last month. The group pulled...
...Paris since the 1950s, though a 1976 study by the newsmagazine Le Point found him to be the least effective of 228 majority members of the legislature. His Oise constituency's steady march leftward prompted Hersant to seek election this time from solidly conservative Neuilly. The incumbent, Gaullist Florence d'Harcourt, was expected to drop out of the race...