Word: premieres
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PARIS--President Francois Mitterrand was reelected Sunday to a second seven-year term in a resounding victory over conservative Premier Jacques Chirac...
...democracy, the public is the master and I bow before its choice," the premier said. "I wish good luck to France and good luck to the French...
Chirac was expected to submit the resignation of his government in the next few days. His center-right coalition continues to control the National Assembly, but Mitterrand has said the new premier he plans to name will try to work with the present Parliament. Failing that, he will be forced to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections...
...glared, the survivors of the first round of France's presidential election faced each other last week in a 2-hr. 20-min. debate watched by some 30 million citizens. Billed as the high point of the electoral campaign, the duel between Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Neo- Gaullist Premier Jacques Chirac produced no clear-cut winner. The dislike was almost palpable, however, between the two men who had been cohabiting, in French parlance, as government leaders for the past two years. During an exchange in which each candidate attempted to suggest that the other was soft on terrorism, Mitterrand...
...surprise, however, was the muscular showing of Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of the ultra-rightist, anti-immigrant National Front. With 14.5% of the vote, Le Pen finished just behind former Premier Raymond Barre, with 16.5%, but well ahead of the once mighty Communist Party, whose candidate, Andre Lajoinie, won just 6.8% in the first round. In the process, Le Pen's movement seemed to have replaced the Communists as the major vehicle for protest voters. Le Pen thus became a durable force and pivotal arbiter of France's now divided right...