Word: peretti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaullist Deputy, Achille Peretti, is pressing for a different system. Under his plan, as in the U.S., a Vice President would be elected at the same time as the President and "would also derive his authority directly from the nation. There would be two names on the ballot." But in President De Gaulle's opinion, picking a successor through new elections is better, because it would provide a leader chosen in his own right, with a full term of office before him and a firm mandate behind him. At week's end, Charles de Gaulle...