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...suffered enough. "We want unity of the left," said Georges Colin, leader of the local Socialist group. "But this implies being able to exercise all our responsibilities, and that has not been the case so far." To underscore their discontent, the Socialists voted against a supplementary budget requested by Lamblin. Last week, in retaliation, the Communists voted against a Socialist proposal to create a new department of urban affairs for the district...
...with their independence prior to the legislative elections next March. But the message coming across to voters is more fundamental. "It's a joke," says Centrist Jean-Louis Schneiter. "They have proved that Socialists and Communists cannot work together." The next act will probably be played out when Lamblin and Colin compete for leftist votes in the elections to the National Assembly. Whether or not Marchais and Mitterrand have been able to paper over their differences by then, it is a safe prediction that neither of their Reims lieutenants will base his campaign on local accomplishments during the past...
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