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Minutes later, Mitterrand's first Cabinet choice was announced. Pierre Mauroy, 52, the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille and longtime Socialist Party stalwart, was named Premier in the interim government that will rule until the parliamentary elections take place next month. Other ministerial appointments announced later in the week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban...
...jitters over the novelty of a Socialist in the Elysée Palace. But he could not accept another bloodless technocrat of the kind that he had criticized in the Giscard regime. He needed a political figure with a popular touch. No one fit that description better than Pierre Mauroy, 52. The big (6 ft. 2 in.) burly mayor of the northern industrial center of Lille, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) is an archetypal man of the north, pragmatic, hardworking and direct. He was born in the town of Cartignies, the grandson of a woodcutter and the son of a teacher...
...Pierre Mauroy, 52, another strong candidate for Premier, has been the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. A third possibility for Premier is Banker Jacques Delors, 55, but he has been mentioned as a more likely candidate for an economics ministry. A key member of the Mitterrand team and a candidate for the Quai D'Orsay, France's Foreign Ministry, is veteran Diplomat Claude Cheysson. As a commissioner of the European Community, Cheysson, 61, led the development of its generous trade policy toward the Third World...
...party's left wing is Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 42, who helped Mitterrand engineer the rapprochement with the Communists in the early 1970s. In 1979 he gained new power in the party by rallying to the defense of Mitterrand against the challenge of Rocard and Mauroy. Still, the all-important negotiations with the Communists will be conducted not by Chevènement but by Lionel Jospin, 43, Mitterrand's successor as the first secretary of the party...
...generally assumed that in the disciplined Communist electoral corps, 80% could be counted on to obey their leaders' instructions to vote for a front-running Socialist. The heterogeneous and individualistic Socialist Party, however, could not be so reliable. It all depended, said a Socialist mayor, Pierre Mauroy, on whether voters "remembered the past six months [of public feuding] or Monday's agreement...