Word: gaullists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perverse, often perplexing performance that has made him the spoiler of the campaign. That role has taken on a bizarre urgency as the two-round election draws close. Polls indicate that in the first round, April 26, Mitterrand should handily defeat both Marchais and the fourth challenger, Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, and run a close second to Giscard...
...campaign had begun to resemble a tedious exercise in shadowboxing and issue ducking. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing remained in lofty seclusion behind the ornate iron gates of the Elysée Palace. Socialist Candidate Francois Mitterrand slipped away for tours to the U.S. and China. Neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac drifted off for a week in the Caribbean. Even Communist Candidate Georges Marchais confined himself largely to preaching to the converted in party districts like Paris' working-class suburbs. Then suddenly last week, the gloves came off and the slugging began...
...begin until April 10. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, indeed, has not even told his countrymen whether he intends to try for a second seven-year term. Yet France's presidential election was unmistakably under way last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year...
...champion of voters alienated from politics-as-usual and dissatisfied with predictable contenders. "A vote for me is an idiot vote," says Coluche. "But a vote for any of them is an imbecile vote." Professional politicians fear that Coluche's listeners may agree with his message. Says a Gaullist presidential candidate, Marie-France Garaud: "One should weep over his candidacy. It shows the disintegration of democracy...
...major candidate to join France's presidential race. The Communists, to no one's surprise, have designated Party Leader Georges Marchais, 60. Michel Debre, 68, who was Charles de Gaulle's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1962, has launched an independent candidacy designed to discourage Neo-Gaullist Leader and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Rocard, though, is the only French politician given any chance of mounting a credible campaign against Giscard. Recent polls give Rocard more than 48% against Giscard. Mitterrand, who with 49.2% in 1974 came within a hairbreadth of the presidency, scores only...