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Mitterrand's Socialist Party scarcely looks able to supply any new leadership. It was rejected by more than four-fifths of the voters; the party polled a dismal 18%. But the Socialists had been expected to lose ground; the real surprise was that voters turned their back on the right as well. The Union for France, a coalition of the two main conservative parties, reaped a mere 33%, down 4 points from its share in the last regional elections in 1986. Just under half (49%) of those who cast ballots chose to leap out of the political mainstream altogether...
...Generation, pulled nearly 14%, more than double any previous share. The two, however, are as much rivals as allies. Ecology Generation is led by Brice Lalonde, who is Environment Minister in Mitterrand's Cabinet and is called "the Pink Submarine" by his opponents; they view him as a subversive Socialist who uses ecology as a front to promote his ambitions. Lalonde, in turn, calls Antoine Waechter, the leader of the Greens, a "totalitarian" who rejects all compromise...
...President to avoid such "cohabitation" might be to institute a system that would fill some or all seats by proportional representation. That might afford at least a thin hope of a Socialist- environmentalist coalition with enough seats to form a government...
Trott loses his religious faith and drifts into leftist political circles. He votes Socialist in the 1930 elections. In short, MacDonogh tells us much about the trivial details of Trott's life, but fails to link them together in a coherent portrait of a human being...
...must remember what gave birth to communism in the first place: the social upheavals and new poverty brought about by the Industrial Revolution, troubles that preceded its immense benefits. The man-made calamities of the capitalist free market constituted, as it were, acts of God without God. The socialist movements that sprang up in protest were animated partly by Luddite rage, partly by the dreams of a just and stable society, a New Jerusalem. These dreams have not been eradicated by their devastating practical failure...