Word: pisani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party that suffered most of all was the Movement for Reform, a centrist splinter group that was hastily organized as a protest against Gaullism by De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister, Edgar Pisani. It was wiped out on the first ballot. In fact, the only opposition group that made any gains was the small United Socialist Party, which almost doubled its voter strength -to 4% of the total. Even so, the party's chief, former Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, was by no means certain of retaining his Assembly seat in a runoff contest with...
Movement for Reform Leader: Edgard Pisani, 49 Seats: 1 Candidates...
...Movement is a new anti-Gaullist group formed by bearded ex-Gaullist Pisani, who resigned from the Cabinet over last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
...Edgar Pisani, De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister (1961-66), defected from the Gaullist U.N.R. Party in order to support the censure. In a highly emotional speech, he damned the Gaullists for letting the situation "pourrir" (go to pot). "Your government," he cried, "had all the forces, all the chances that French governments have always lacked. It took credit for peace, for monetary stability, for increasing investments, for institutions adapted to the modern world. But this government was not able to foresee, to cope. It was preoccupied with lasting rather than governing." Socialist Mitterrand boldly proposed to take over...
...expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned in protest against the government's attempt to rule by decree. He was the first French Cabinet member in five years to quit...