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...Center is now occupied by the victorious Socialists and Popular Republicans (Mouvement Républicain Populaire). From them De Gaulle gets solid but not uncritical support. Last August the Socialists rejected fusion with the Communists by an overwhelming convention vote (10,112-to-274); thereby they won the support of shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and other petite bourgeoisie. The MRP, emerging from the Resistance, combines Christian and Socialist principles, appeals to the Church and to women (who voted for the first time in French history in the September cantonal elections and who now compose 53% of the electorate...
...great gainers were old Leon Blum's Socialists, in league with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's youthful, lusty Mouvement Républicain Populaire (Socialist Christian movement...
Also running, but late in starting, were: 1) The Mouvement Républicain Populaire, a new left-of-center party which included Christian Democrats, like Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and the moderate bourgeoisie; 2) the Radical Socialists, the old center party of Edouard Herriot (still a prisoner in Germany), now leaning for strength on the conservative peasantry. Barred from voting were many who once formed France's extreme right. A Government decree had withdrawn the franchise from collaborators...