Word: nement
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...argument focused on electoral tactics as much as ideology. "It is in not being faithful to these [Socialist] values that we have suffered," declared Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the party's left-wing faction. Rocard attacked the government and the party for attempting to push through educational reforms that would have extended state authority over private schools. After more than a million people protested in Paris this past fall, the Socialists scrapped the plan and settled for a series of piecemeal measures. "How could we have failed to see that the real challenge before...
...party congress, former Research and Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of one of the party's left-wing factions, called for a more radical, reflationary and protectionist economic course. Chevènement, who was forced to resign from his cabinet post this year after opposing austerity, claimed the support of close to 20% of the delegates. The consensus of the congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership...
...government is that its 1981 attempt at expansion created first inflation and then a huge trade deficit. Chevalier said that a split in Socialist Party ranks continues between supporters of Finance Minister Jacques Delors's austerity program and left-wingers like former Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who favor spurring demand at any cost. In view of the government's severe financial straits, Chevalier noted, no alternative exists to the present, unpopular squeeze...
...head of the party's left wing is Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 42, who helped Mitterrand engineer the rapprochement with the Communists in the early 1970s. In 1979 he gained new power in the party by rallying to the defense of Mitterrand against the challenge of Rocard and Mauroy. Still, the all-important negotiations with the Communists will be conducted not by Chevènement but by Lionel Jospin, 43, Mitterrand's successor as the first secretary of the party...