Word: gaullists
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...said the centrists are now the key to the election next Sunday. They received 12 per cent of the vote in the first election, and their expected support would insure a Gaullist victory...
President Georges Pompidou and his ruling Gaullist party appeared likely to remain in power after next Sunday's election, despite a clear drop in popularity indicated by a trial run election held in France on Sunday...
...France, as elsewhere, polls are intriguing but uncertain barometers. Most observers attributed the rise in support for the rightist and centrist parties to the concerted political scare strategy of the Gaullists. Blithely ignoring a constitutional provision that France's President is above partisan politics, Georges Pompidou, in a television interview, spearheaded a Gaullist campaign designed to convince French voters that a leftist victory would mean chaos at best, a Communist takeover at worst. To which Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer added a prediction that it would bring about "a demolition of the Fifth Republic...
Some observers feel that the Gaullist campaign may cause a change in traditional voting patterns. French voters, who ballot twice on consecutive Sundays in the elections for the National Assembly,* have generally shifted on the second ballot to give bigger votes to the first-round leaders. Some voters who go Socialist may shift to candidates of such centrist parties as the Radicals or Center Democrats. But Center Democratic Leader Jean Lecanuet wooed the undecided strongly last week in a rally at Rennes by promising that if no clear majority emerged from the election, his party would help keep the Gaullists...
...become France's Premier in 1973. This feat, if Mitterrand brings it off, will bear witness to his tenacity, shrewdness and gift for political compromise. Mitterrand has had to painstakingly rebuild the flagging Socialist Party, which has long been threatened by minute doctrinal squabbles as well as by Gaullist and Communist inroads upon its petit bourgeois constituency. Most French socialist leaders have traditionally refused to collaborate with the Communists on ideological grounds. Mitterrand's tactic, since he took over as leader of a regrouped Socialist Party in 1971, has been to fashion a united front with them...