Word: gaullists
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...desk to the conspicuously placed photos of his grandchildren, was calculated to project the image of a national father figure. Though there was little suspense--his intentions had long been clear--Balladur's nationally televised address was the biggest political event of the new year. It marked the Gaullist Prime Minister's official entry into a presidential race that could make him the successor to Socialist Francois Mitterrand next May. Speaking from his gilded office, Balladur, 65, promised to run a ``positive, serene and optimistic'' campaign...
Serene? Not if Jacques Chirac can help it. The Paris mayor and former Prime Minister is seething over what he calls Balladur's ``betrayal.'' Two years ago, with the conservatives poised to win a majority in legislative elections, Chirac and Balladur cut a deal: Chirac, then leader of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) party, would put Balladur into the Prime Minister's job; Balladur, in turn, would defer to Chirac as the Gaullists' ``natural'' candidate in the 1995 presidential election...
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...