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...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...
...government-dominated banks rather than raise capital on the stock market. Referring to the Bourse's principal trading circle by nickname, De Gaulle declared icily: "France's policy is not made in the Basket." Stockbroker Antoine Durant des Aulnois recalls that being a dealer during the Gaullist era was "like selling corset ribs at a time when women didn't wear corsets any more...
...foreign policy in the June issue of Harper's, Historian Walter Laqueur charges that "France suffers not so much from a surfeit of nationalism as from a lack of faith, or a land of defeatism trying to masquerade as an unemotional strategy." Laqueur concedes that "there is a Gaullist tradition in modern French history, but there is also the heritage of Vichy, and it is not at all certain that the Gaullist tradition has prevailed of late. Contemporary appeasement has many guises: it appears under the mask of superior wisdom, experience and statesmanship, as well as under the slogan...