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Despite his victory, Giscard was aware that the election results could be read as a warning as well as a mandate. The popular vote in the runoff dramatically illustrated this: 14.8 million voted for Giscard's center-right, 13.9 million for the other side. Accordingly, in an arresting, postelection appearance on nationwide television last week, Giscard made his first conciliatory move toward the left. Looking relaxed and confident, he extended an open hand. "I am addressing myself to those who voted for the opposition; it was your right. But you should know that for the President of the republic...
...Feydeau farce should look like an old silent movie runoff on a modern projector. The characters must move and gesticulate as if controlled by a crazed puppet master and appear always to be running into each other, often at the least advisable moment. The production of 13 Rue de l'Amour at Manhattan's Circle in the Square comes creditably close to the Feydeau tempo and spirit, but it is difficult to orchestrate an arena stage to that crescendo of forbidden doors being opened and closed on which Feydeau depends...
...parties. But it was far from clear whether a first-round victory would foreshadow a leftist triumph in the crucial second-round ballot next Sunday. Much would depend on whether the feuding Socialists and Communists could patch up their differences and agree to support each other in the Sunday runoff. If the left were to have any chance of winning, each of the two parties would have to withdraw its candidate in districts where the other's candidate had won in the first round. They would then have to put their combined weight behind the front runner, whether Communist...
...only thing that seemed probable as France's 32 million voters prepared to go to the polls on March 12 was that the Socialists, Communists and other leftist parties combined would emerge with a majority of the popular vote. But there was no saying who would win the runoff election a week later on March 19, given the nature of France's two-round election system (see box) and the uncertainty about whether the idiosyncratic French Communists would choose to patch up their differences with the bigger Socialist Party...
...hammer home his displeasure with the Socialists, Marchais unveiled a strategy that if pursued to the end would virtually assure the left of defeat in March. In the first round of voting, on March 12, the electorate chooses its favored candidates in an elimination contest. In the second, or runoff, round, held a week later, the custom among allied parties, left or right, requires the losing side to support the first-round winner. Thus if a Socialist candidate scored higher in Round 1, he would receive Communist support in Round 2. But Marchais decreed that the Communists would refuse...