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...remaining weeks of the campaign, can attract enough backing from left-wing Gaullists or centrists to give him more than 50% of the total, he will become France's new President. If not, he will face the candidate with the second highest vote in a runoff on May 19. At present, Mitterrand's support probably represents the hard-core vote he will get from the dedicated left: about 20% coming from the Communists, a bit more than that from the Socialists. His problem-which has faced every leftist leader in modern French history who has approached the threshold...
...protest. However, they quickly return to the center or right if it appears that a leftist has a chance of winning. Thus Mitterrand's best opportunity for a victory will come on the first ballot, while Chaban and Giscard fight among themselves for Gaullist support; in a runoff, he would face a unified Gaullist front...
...Mitterrand picks up enough support to win a clean majority-a Gaullist nightmare-he will become Pompidou's successor. The probability is that he will gain somewhat less than 50% of the vote, which means that Mitterrand will then face the second-ranking candidate in a runoff on May 19. Thus the real contest now is between Chaban and Giscard for second place in the first round of the election...
...refunded if they poll more than 5% of the vote) to be listed on the May 5 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...
...northwest of Los Angeles are less concerned about Watergate. Representative Charles M. Teague, who died on New Year's Day, had won ten straight elections in the 13th District; in 1972 he got 73.9% of the vote. Seven Democrats jumped into the race, each hoping to force a runoff election by holding Republican Nominee Robert J. Lagomarsino, 47, to less than half the vote. The effort failed, largely because of Lagomarsino's strategy. Son of a wealthy local family, he is a wholesale-liquor dealer and has represented the area in the state senate for a dozen years...