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...same again. For last week, needing more than 50% of the votes in a field of six to win a first-ballot reelection as President of France, Charles de Gaulle lost. Though he ran first in the field, he got only 44% of the votes cast. Leftist Francois Mitterrand polled a surprising 32%. Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet came from nowhere to win 16%, and the three other candidates garnered a total of 8%. The result forced De Gaulle into a runoff next week with Mitterrand-the most resounding and unexpected defeat for a Western political leader since Britain turned Winston...
...runoff election will almost certainly be held on Dec. 19 between DeGaulle and Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist candidate who finished behind DeGaulle and ahead of Jean Lecanuet, a young moderate who calls himself the French Kennedy. Lecanuet was credited with having kept from DeGaulle the crucial five per cent of the vote which would have meant election...
...social engagements to include the televised political speeches of the evening. Charged Catholic Centrist Candidate Jean Lecanuet in one of his poised and Kennedyesque talks: "France is last among European nations in production, growth, construction of housing and salaries, leading Europe only in inflation and taxes." Leftist Candidate null Mitterrand aimed his best shot of the week at the force de frappe-"a waste of money that would be better spent on schools." Rightist Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour denounced Gaullist parsimony at home while French francs are flowing into foreign aid. "We need better telephone service to Lyon," said Tixier...
Cheap at the Price. Leading the way was François Mitterrand, long De Gaulle's roughest parliamentary critic and so far his chief opposition in the race, who has the joint backing of the Socialist and Communist parties. Mitterrand bore down heavily on "social injustice" in France, sneered that "De Gaulle poses problems which concerned our fathers. I am trying to pose problems which will concern our sons." The candidate on the right, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, spoke feelingly on the subject that still rankles and moves many a Frenchman - the Gaullist betrayal of the Algerian French...
This kind of past double relationship might explain why Leftist Mitterrand and avowed Rightist Pesquet got together again. But for what purpose? Neither man's explanation entirely satisfied. Without offering any proof, Parisian newsmen contrived a more devious explanation: that Leftist Mitterrand and Rightist Pesquet. equally eager to discredit the regime of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre, could have collaborated in the mutual hope of toppling Debre and with the common intention of doublecrossing each other after the deed was done...