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...says he is an evolutionist, not a proponent of violent revolution, and that the presidential campaign is merely another way to push for change in the system. "Election day is the least important day of the year to a Socialist," he explains...
...Hall, the longtime chairman of the Communist Party, and running mate Angela Davis lead a pack of other leftists in the race. They include Deirdre Gristly of the Workers World Party and Andrew Pulley of the Socialist Workers Party...
...discreetly, sometimes unabashedly. Last week Michel Rocard finally made his ambitions official. From the town hall he occupies as mayor of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the compact (5 ft. 6 in.), crimson-cheeked economist formally declared that he was challenging François Mitterrand for the Socialist Party's nomination as its candidate against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the presidential election next May. Rocard gracefully suggested that Mitterrand, a veteran of more than three decades in French politics, could stay on as party leader. But the true meaning of Rocard...
Rocard, who is 14 years younger than Mitterrand, has an engaging, feisty personality; his quick mind and sharp tongue come across well on television. Above all, he appeals to non-Socialist moderates. He has never concealed his distaste for the Union of the Left, the Socialist-Communist alliance that almost won the 1974 presidential election, only to collapse just before the parliamentary vote of 1978. Rocard is far more comfortable with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's brand of social democracy than with the quasi-Marxist yearnings of his own party's left wing. Mitterrand's intentions...
...have a broader base of support within his own party, having assigned three Cabinet seats to its mutinous left wing; some of its members had been suspected of having helped bring down Cossiga by voting against the government in the secret ballot. For another, Forlani had a strongly reinforced Socialist Party behind him, thanks to the aggressive leadership of its burly party secretary, Bettino Craxi, 46. Three weeks ago, Craxi unexpectedly announced an alliance with the Social Democrats and brought them into the coalition as an additional, fourth partner. Finally, in exchange for policy concessions on labor and the economy...