Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other parties struggled desperately to carve out a middle position between Gaullists and Communists. Warning that a return to Gaullism would lead only to another crisis, Francois Mitterrand, leader of the non-Communist Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left, declared that only his party "offered a third road-a new alliance between socialism and liberty." In the rural areas, the federation has lost the support of many of its backers because it is linked in an electoral alliance with the Communists. In a jet-hopping tour across France, Centrist Leader Jacques Duhamel pleaded: "Let us not break France...
...left, there are three groupings: the Communists; the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, led by 1965 Presidential Runner-Up François Mitterrand; and the Unified Socialist Party, a doctrinaire faction whose prime asset is its most illustrious member, Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, 61. It seems likely that Mitterrand's party and the Communists will each enter a full slate of competing first-round candidates in France's 487 electoral districts. But they are likely to combine forces and throw their votes in the final round to the strongest candidate from either...
Sensing that the moment had come to strike, Fran?ois Mitterrand, the leader of the non-Communist left, next day made an open bid for power. Summoning the press to a gilded salon in the Hotel Continental, he called for the establishment of a provisional government of the left to prepare for the election of a President to replace De Gaulle. He suggested former Premier Pierre Mendès-France be leader of the provisional regime-a proposal to which Mendès-France quickly agreedèand announced his own intention to run for the presidency in the elections...
...experts feel that the Gaullist party will never again place enough members in the National Assembly to form a working majority. If the present Assembly were dissolved at any time soon, the feeling at the moment among most French politicians is that the so-called combined left?Communists plus Mitterrand's assortment of Socialists-would command a solid majority in which the Communist ratio would be higher than it is now. At present, it is 73 Reds v. 121 Socialists. As a result, Communist leverage in a regime of the left would be considerable. In the event of popular-front...
...select anyone but a Gaullist to serve as head of government. If De Gaulle should resign and new presidential elections were held, the situation would be completely different. As a result, speculation about France's political future inevitably centers on who might win the presidency après De Gaulle. Mitterrand, while effective with other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?for the moment, at least, seem to have little appeal to French voters. The man that some politicians in Paris were mentioning last week...