Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire-and-brimstone attack on Premier Raymond Barre's anti-inflation policies, Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais declared in a Paris speech: "If I believed in God, I would promise hell for anyone who believes in austerity." Barre, for his part, ripped into Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand has played with fire, and now he is beginning to burn. He signed a pact, as Faust did, to regain his youth...
...Marchais was scheduled to announce whether or not he intended to make good his threat of last January to deny the Socialists his support in the second round if his Communists failed to win at least 21% of the vote in Round 1. Although Marchais' policy differences with Mitterrand were sharp-the Communists insist on sweeping nationalization of industry-there were indications that he planned to join forces with the Socialists in order to make a leftist victory possible in Round 2. Communist Historian Jean Ellenstein told TIME last week he fully expected a leftist accord after the first...
...Even if Mitterrand and Marchais did manage to paper over their quarrel, imbalances in the makeup of France's electoral districts would require the leftist parties to win at least 52% or 53% of the popular vote before they could gain a majority in the Assembly. But a shift in France's political demographics may help the left attain that goal. Giscard's lowering of the voting age in 1974 created the youngest French electorate in 40 years. The increase in left-leaning young voters has more than counterbalanced the rise in the number of voters over...
Later Chirac declared that no country had ever gone from a "regime of liberty to a regime of socialism and back again to liberty. I don't say that Monsieur Mitterrand wishes to install a gulag in France," he conceded, but he warned that France under leftist rule would eventually resemble the Soviet-bloc countries. Back in Strasbourg that evening, Chirac delivered another rousing denunciation of the left to 4,500 Gaullist faithful. Sighed one elderly admirer: "He is the dauphin of Charles de Gaulle...
...past, such deals have made the second-round vote a direct duel between right and left in most districts. This year, however, Communist Chief Georges Marchais has threatened to upset the usual pattern. In his feud with Socialist François Mitterrand, he has warned that if his Communists do not gain at least 21% of the vote in the first round, he may not withdraw his candidates in districts where Socialists run ahead. In many areas this would result in three-way races - Communists v. Socialists v. center-right candidates - a situation that would give the non-leftists...