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...exchange well illustrated the divisions that have grown in France's ruling Socialist Party after three years in power. Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard stunned the 700 delegates at the party's annual convention held outside Paris last week by sharply criticizing the administration of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand for having allowed "a serious breach to develop between the government and the country." A centrist and longtime Mitterrand rival, Rocard called on the party to "broaden its appeal to the whole of the country." Party Secretary Lionel Jospin was quick to reply next morning. He was shocked, he said...
...argument focused on electoral tactics as much as ideology. "It is in not being faithful to these [Socialist] values that we have suffered," declared Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the party's left-wing faction. Rocard attacked the government and the party for attempting to push through educational reforms that would have extended state authority over private schools. After more than a million people protested in Paris this past fall, the Socialists scrapped the plan and settled for a series of piecemeal measures. "How could we have failed to see that the real challenge before...
...elite school are known, who previously held posts with the leftist Fourth Republic government of Pierre Mendès-France, then was Ambassador to Indonesia under Charles de Gaulle, and served as a commissioner of the European Community in the Giscard years. Fellow E.N.A. graduates are Planning Minister Michel Rocard ('58) and Budget Minister Laurent Fabius ('73), among others...
...build up the bureaucratic self-esteem that was tarnished during the Nazi years. It accepts only 150 students annually. Almost invariably, graduates of E.N.A. are assured of getting top jobs in the civil service. Indeed, so well did De Gaulle's innovation flourish that technocrats like Giscard, Rocard and onetime French Premier Jacques Chirac were finally able to dominate the country's politics...
Mauroy's only real moment of friction with Mitterrand came in 1979. Impatient with the Socialists' slowness in breaking the alliance with the Communists, Mauroy, by then the mayor of Lille, briefly promoted Michel Rocard as the party's next presidential nominee. But when Mitterrand announced he would run again, Mauroy loyally swung back into line...