Word: mitterrand
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...damage to the commanding 365-seat bloc that the Gaullists and their al lies carried into the election will not be known until next week's runoff.* But the pre-election opinion polls continued to suggest that Gaullist losses to the left-wing alliance of François Mitterrand's Socialists and Georges Marchais's Communists would be heavy. The final poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties 47 per cent of the electorate. The Gaullists trailed with 36% (as compared with their 46% popular vote...
...voters were unexcited, it was because the party leaders were uninspiring. Socialist Mitterrand, who is engaging in person but a stiff and weary figure on a TV screen, bored French audiences by repeatedly assuring them that the united-left program-nationalization of "strategic industries," banks and insurance companies-is "neither socialism nor Communism" but something he described as "economic democracy." Although many Frenchmen agree with Servan-Schreiber's proposals for decentralizing power within France, few share his sense of urgency about spearheading "a European new deal...
...most crucial national election in recent French history drew closer last week-and so did the rival forces. The latest nationwide poll, published by the Paris daily Le Figaro, showed that the leftist coalition headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand had dropped from 46% to 43% in its share of the popular vote. The governing Gaullists had 38% -up 1% from the previous week's results-while independent, middle-of-the-road reformist parties had 16% of the vote, a gain...
...contrast, the crowds in France were modest and the candidates lethargic. Socialist Mitterrand, for instance, spent part of the week at rallies in the rural departments of Nièvre and Saône-et-Loire southeast of Paris, where he is already well known as mayor of the town of Château-Chinon, president of Nièvre's departmental council and "our Deputy" in the National Assembly. "This is his fief," said one peasant in the farming town of Montsauche (pop. 850). "Around here he is simply known as Fran...
Driving from village to village through heavy snow in a chauffeured limousine, Mitterrand greeted dozens of supporters by their first names and cracked a few mild, homey jokes. At the chilly town hall of Montsauche, commenting on the isolation of the area's pine-studded hills, he recalled how "my friend Jacques here and I once lost our way only a few kilometers from the village-and don't think we had made too many stops in the cafe around the corner...