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...margins. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-ville, for example, came within 235 votes of victory-and Couve had hardly been a dynamic campaigner. All in all, according to De Gaulle's calculations, a shift of 10,000 votes in the right places would have turned 35 Gaullist losers into winners. "That's not seri- ous," he told his Cabinet. "It is a situation that will redress itself...
Common Positions? The general's leftist opposition, however, had certainly done far better than anyone expected. Voting together for the first time in three decades, French Communists and Socialists pooled their forces against Gaullist candidates in last week's runoff elections and found that the alliance paid off handsomely. The Communists pulled their usual 20% of the vote but nearly doubled their parliamentary strength, from 41 to 73. Francois Mitterrand's Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left gained 25 seats, for a total...
Whatever the chances of alliance, the Communists emerged from the elections stronger than at any time since De Gaulle came to power. They have, as the French say, been "dedouane"-released from customs. Also, for the first time in the Gaullist era, they are expected to drop their role of sullen isolation in the Assembly, take part in its organization and committees. If they do so, they will, like the other major parties, elect a vice president of the Assembly, who will take his turn at presiding. Communist Deputies will likely be among French parliamentary delegations to the Council...
...they added new power by forming an electoral pact with François Mitterrand's Federation of Democratic Socialists, the third largest party. Under the pact, the candidate, either Communist or Socialist, who had more votes in the first election or stood the better chance of beating the Gaullist man became the candidate of both leftist parties in the runoff. Accordingly, the Communists withdrew their candidates in 159 districts, while Mitterrand's people withdrew in 124. Few observers expected the alliance of the left to last past the election...
...Fifth Republic. What very few observers anticipated was that the rank-and-file of the leftist parties might have the same discipline that their leaders had recently acquired. By pooling the votes of the Federation of the Left and the Communists, the new popular front snatched many supposedly safe Gaullist seats...