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...ballot, it is certain to be crowded with aspirants of every political persuasion. If no one wins a majority of the votes cast, the top two candidates will meet in a runoff, scheduled for May 19. Until the victor takes office, the acting head of state is Alain Poher, 64, President of the Senate. Poher served as interim President five years ago, during the hiatus between De Gaulle's resignation and Pompidou's inauguration. In the subsequent election, he surprised many by coming in second to Pompidou...
...Poher's age makes it unlikely that he will run this time, but beyond that, nothing seems to be certain in the balloting. "It is still too early to predict the election's results," says TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "Yet it is clear that France's 31 million voters will decide the course of their country and of the Common Market for the remainder of this decade and beyond. The ultimate choice facing them will be between the 'continuity' of Gaullism or a break from it." A Socialist-Communist victory would bring Communists...
...Revel rumbles on his major interest emerges: France is what concerns him, especially the complacent lethargy of her leftists. Revel devotes a third of the book to the radicals, alleging they wish to remain out of power. His references to the Pompidou-Poher presidential campaign point out a stunning disinterest in practical politics and constructive action on the part of the left. He also exposes the naivete with which French leftists view America. He ridicules students' surprise that auto-workers are not starving and berates a radical journalist who comments. "'In the United States Mr. Nixon's only serious rival...
...Gaullist regime. Centrist Duhamel campaigned energetically against De Gaulle in the 1968 general election, decrying the general's policies regarding NATO and the Middle East and his "ten years of personal power and arrogance." During this spring's presidential campaign, he hesitated between Pompidou and Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent clashes with the Cabinet's loyal Gaullists...
Pompidou was met at the palace steps by interim President Alain Poher, whom he defeated in the two-round election that chose Charles de Gaulle's successor. Together, victor and vanquished walked to the elegant Salle des Fêtes, where other officials and guests had assembled. A chamber ensemble that had been playing Lully's Les Mousquetaires du Roy fell silent. The president of the Constitutional Council, which oversees elections, stepped forward to proclaim Pompidou as President. Then the grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor slipped around Pompidou's neck the heavy chain...