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...supporters on the right, Giscard said: "I have understood in this campaign that you wanted change. You will not be disappointed." Giscard also promised French voters that they would be "surprised at the breadth and rapidity" of the changes he would bring to France after 16 years of conservative Gaullist rule. Those changes will begin to take shape this week, when the new President announces his choice for Premier and holds his first meeting with a Cabinet that will include some young faces-and possibly even some women...
Overdue Reform. The "two Frances"-one privileged, modern and optimistic, the other poor, neglected and burdened with grievances-that were etched so sharply in the election results are a product of the unevenness of the remarkable prosperity of the Gaullist years. The robust French economy has almost tripled in size since 1962, and some analysts predict that it will pass West Germany's by 1980 or 1981. Yet France's rising gross national product has mainly benefited the slowly expanding middle class and the country's pampered farmers, who voted overwhelmingly for Giscard. Prosperity has largely bypassed...
Magic Moment. One thing that Giscard will have going for him in his dealings both with the left and with the Gaullists is the fact that he has very few political debts to pay. Though he had served Gaullist governments almost continuously since 1962, when De Gaulle named him Finance Minister at the blindingly early age of 36, Giscard managed to cast himself as the candidate of "change without risk." Even more remarkable was Giscard's personal transformation. For years his image had been that of an aloof technocrat-a man who, as one longtime colleague put it, could...
...Having been Finance Minister for the past five years, Giscard might be expected to set aside any costly new social programs that would interfere with efforts to control a rate of inflation running upwards of 18% a year. Foreign policy under both men would probably not veer markedly from Gaullist tradition, although Mitterrand might well maintain an even more abrasively independent stance toward the U.S. and NATO...
...both candidates postured in similar quasi-Gaullist roles, Frenchmen were left to ponder the very real differences between them: Mitterrand, the solid, earnest leader committed to social reform but allied with the lockstep Communist Party, and Giscard, the cool, successful administrator concerned with growth but seeming at times too far removed from human needs. Said one Gaullist Deputy: "My heart says Mitterrand. My mind says Giscard...