Word: mitterrand
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With the Gaullists divided, it now seems certain that Socialist Mitterrand will win the most votes on the May 5 ballot. A poll published by Le Figaro gave Mitterrand 36% of the vote, Giscard 27% and Chaban 26%. If Mitterrand picks up enough support to win a clean majority-a Gaullist nightmare-he will become Pompidou's successor. The probability is that he will gain somewhat less than 50% of the vote, which means that Mitterrand will then face the second-ranking candidate in a runoff on May 19. Thus the real contest now is between Chaban and Giscard...
...almost certain that Giscard-who might have been Pompidou's own choice as successor-will seek support from Gaullist liberals and other moderates. The Communists and Socialists, despite their differing views on what ought to be the next President's program, will probably unite behind Mitterrand as a joint leftist candidate...
FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND, 57, also a former Resistance leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished...
...recent months, Mitterrand has held well-publicized meetings with West Germany's Willy Brandt and Egypt's Anwar Sadat, and wooed the support of workers with promises of tax reforms, better health care and higher pensions. But his uneasy union with the Communists, which assures him 20% of the vote, also tends to alienate middle-class voters who might otherwise be in the mood for a change...
...preoccupied with internal politics. France's President, closeted with a few intimate advisers, spends much of his time brooding about the growing appeal of the left. He fears that a faltering French economy would lead, after election year 1976, to a popular-front government headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand, with Communist ministers in key posts. He fears above all that West Germany may become a political "neutral" in East-West relations, which could lead to a profound change not only in France's foreign policy but also possibly in its form of government...