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...will do exactly what we said we would dono more no less." With those words, spoken from the gilded rostrum of France's National Assembly last week, Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy unveiled his government's program for transforming the country's social and economic landscape. The only real surprise was Mauroy's determination, at the behest of President François Mitterrand, to act quickly on the basic planks of the Socialists' electoral platform: nationalization of banks and a number of industries, decentralization of the nation's administrative machinery, and reform...
...Mauroy outlined his sweeping plans, the opposition benches occasionally emitted yelps of protest, but they were usually drowned out by applause from the Socialists. Mauroy taunted the center-right deputies good-humoredly: "I understand how difficult it must be for you in the opposition. We were there for 23 years...
...opposition rallied to the attack during the six hours of debate that followed Mauroy's speech. Francois Ceyrac, a spokesman for Big Business, later summed up the criticism: "Nationalizations are an economic absurdity that threatens to become a catastrophe for the French economy...
...rhetorical protests were sure to fail in an Assembly where leftists hold 288 of the 491 seats. Mauroy's proposals were finally approved by a solid 302-to-147 vote, with the rest abstaining...
Still more important, the actions the new Socialist government undertook in the month preceding the elections served to reassure and please many voters. By naming a moderate cabinet including highly touted finance minister Jacques Delors and anti-Communist Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, Mitterand demonstrated that he is far from the ardent revolutionary his opponents portrayed him to be. And by raising the minimum wage 10 per cent, opening discussions on the 35-hour week and making loans more readily available to small-and medium-size firms. Mitterand proved he keeps his promises...