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...candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus launching Mitterrand's third bid for the Elysée. Not to be outdone, Communist Leader Georges Marchais, 60, who has presidential ambitions of his own, lashed out at Giscard and Mitterrand with equal vigor...
...prey, sometimes discreetly, sometimes unabashedly. Last week Michel Rocard finally made his ambitions official. From the town hall he occupies as mayor of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the compact (5 ft. 6 in.), crimson-cheeked economist formally declared that he was challenging François Mitterrand for the Socialist Party's nomination as its candidate against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the presidential election next May. Rocard gracefully suggested that Mitterrand, a veteran of more than three decades in French politics, could stay on as party leader. But the true meaning of Rocard...
...ROCARD: MITTERRAND TO THE MUSEUM...
...Prime Minister from 1958 to 1962, has launched an independent candidacy designed to discourage Neo-Gaullist Leader and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Rocard, though, is the only French politician given any chance of mounting a credible campaign against Giscard. Recent polls give Rocard more than 48% against Giscard. Mitterrand, who with 49.2% in 1974 came within a hairbreadth of the presidency, scores only...
Rocard, who is 14 years younger than Mitterrand, has an engaging, feisty personality; his quick mind and sharp tongue come across well on television. Above all, he appeals to non-Socialist moderates. He has never concealed his distaste for the Union of the Left, the Socialist-Communist alliance that almost won the 1974 presidential election, only to collapse just before the parliamentary vote of 1978. Rocard is far more comfortable with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's brand of social democracy than with the quasi-Marxist yearnings of his own party's left wing. Mitterrand's intentions...