Word: mitterrand
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...governments now hope that the Irish vote will lead to a positive result in a French referendum to be held in the fall. But nothing is certain in France, where voters could well use Maastricht to rebuke the increasingly unpopular President Francois Mitterrand. Eventually, all 12 E.C. members, Denmark included, must ratify the treaty before it can take force...
Only 10 months after President Francois Mitterrand made her the first woman to hold France's second highest office, she was forced to withdraw. Her resignation follows the ruling Socialist Party's humiliating trouncing two weeks ago in regional elections...
...unpopularity of Prime Minister Edith Cresson is harder to understand. Her acid tongue -- she called the Japanese "ants" and implied that 25% of British men were homosexual -- got her in trouble, but more recently she has been minding her manners. Nonetheless, her popularity has continued to drop, dragging down Mitterrand's with...
...many-sided mood, in part contradictory. After winning office in 1981, the Socialists engaged in a burst of nationalization of industry that proved disastrous; ever since, the party has followed policies so conservative that to many voters it no longer seems to stand for anything. Mitterrand, at 75 and after nearly 11 years in power, has become an august, remote figure (he is sometimes sarcastically called Dieu, or God) and has seemed at times to lose his touch in foreign affairs, to the detriment of French influence. For example, he tried to resist German unification after the Berlin Wall fell...
Under present electoral procedures -- two rounds of voting that in effect squeeze out minor parties -- last week's ballot pattern would produce a heavy conservative majority. That would force Mitterrand, whose seven-year term runs until 1995, to share power with a conservative Prime Minister...