Word: gaullists
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...President discussed the ground rules for the voting with leaders of the four main political parties. In separate meetings, he received Socialist Lionel Jospin, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, Paris Mayor and Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Jean Lecanuet, head of Giscard's demoralized Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.). Mitterrand's gesture of consulting with friend and foe alike reinforced the new administration's tone of national unity...
Then, as Giscard walked out the front gate to his private car, Mitterrand proceeded to the tapestry-lined Salle des Fêtes to greet several hundred invited guests, including local officials from the Charente region where he was born 64 years ago, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac in his capacity as mayor of Paris, and several Communist members of Parliament. Most conspicuous were the scores of Socialists who had assembled to witness their leader's triumph, such as Lionel Jospin, Mitterrand's successor as party chief, and Pierre Mendès-France, 74, former Socialist Premier...
...appointments announced later in the week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, will be Minister of Economy and Finance. Gaston Deferre, 70, the mayor of Marseille, will be the nation's top policeman in his capacity as Minister of the Interior. Mitterrand's rival for the presidential nomination last year, Michel Rocard, 50, will be Minister...
...some extent, Giscard was hurt by a weakness that plagued him since he took office in 1974: the lack of a powerful party base. His own Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.) is a small and loose-knit group that is not nearly as well organized as its troublesome Gaullist coalition partner, the Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.). Chirac, who polled a respectable 18% in the first round of the presidential voting, gave Giscard only a lukewarm endorsement in the second round. Post-election analysis indicates that only 75% of Chirac's supporters cast their votes for Giscard. The R.P.R...
Mitterrand may also be expected to draw on another Gaullist tradition by pursuing an independent and nationalistic French foreign policy-albeit one that may differ from his Elysée predecessors' in some important respects. No clear-cut policy will emerge until after the parliamentary elections, but the broad outlines can be predicted from Mitterrand's stated positions...