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...election fight begins, Mitterrand remains above the fray...
Once again, campaign posters sprouted across the land like wild flowers after a spring rain. At the behest of France's new President, François Mitterrand, the country plunged last week into its second election campaign of 1981, a lightning, three-week blitz to elect a new National Assembly, one that Mitterrand fully intends to see reflect his own Socialist image...
Ensconced in his office at the Elysée Palace, Mitterrand followed the example of an Olympian predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, and stayed nobly above the battle. He continued to pursue a skillful dual strategy of playing to his left-wing constituency, while reassuring skeptics that he would not go off on a Marxist bender...
...Labor Leader Edmond Maire, head of the Confederation Française Démocratique du Travail. But the prospect of a Socialist majority in parliament sent many investors running for cover. The Paris Bourse dropped eight points last week, steepening a slide that had decreased overall values 26% since Mitterrand's election...
...next day, however, the pugnacious Chirac blasted Mitterrand's nationalization and economic programs. The self-proclaimed leader of the center-right declared sarcastically, "France is not a laboratory for apprentices to try out their contradictory and irreversible experiments." It was the opening salvo of what promises to be a brutal electoral battle, in which Chirac's Gaullists and the remnants of Giscard's U.D.F. will attempt to retain their parliamentary majority and block Mitterrand's reform plans...