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...local elections, voters show displeasure with Socialist rule...
Confident of gaining ground, the center-right opposition stepped up its attack last week. Neo-Gaullist Leader and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told supporters, who had gathered in a drab, working-class district of the capital, that the Socialists and Communists were "consummate artists when it comes to lying." Former Premier Raymond Barre blasted the government for the "cacophony" of its contradictory policies. Mitterrand remained above the fray, but Socialist First Secretary Lionel Jospin and Communist Boss Georges Marchais tried to drum up the loyal leftist vote in the suburban industrial "Red belt" around Paris. Marchais told a rally...
...process of gutting he building's ornate interior during renovations, Lang created huge cost overruns and caused a scandal. Recalls a colleague Utterly: "He turned a great theater into a garage." Then Minister of Culture Michel Guy fired Lang, who capitalized on the insult by joining the Socialist Party. In 1978, Mitterrand, who was still leader of the opposition, made him his cultural adviser...
...that will be held on March 6 and 13. The vote is a local affair to choose councilmen and mayors for the country's 36,400 municipalities, but it has assumed the dimensions of a national referendum on President François Mitterrand's 21-month-old Socialist experiment. The Socialists and their Communist allies in the government are expected to lose anywhere from ten to 40 of the 154 municipalities they control among France's 219 cities with populations of more than...
...heart of the election campaign is the Socialist economic record. The government began with a quixotic attempt to spend the country out of a recession. When inflation started to leap out of control, the government switched directions, clamping on a four-month wage and price freeze and then imposing an austerity program that limited wage increases and lowered unemployment benefits. One of the right's most damning accusations is that middle-class Frenchmen have suffered a net loss of purchasing power under the Socialists...