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Article: France: mountain comes to Mitterrand. (Francois Mitterrand)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 28, 1988
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"It's not healthy for only one party to govern," President Mitterrand remarked on his annual pilgrimage to the rocky peak of Solutre in the Morvan. He was thinking of another sort of mountain- a large Socialist majority in the National Assembly-and probably wishing it were smaller than it looks like being. In the two-round parliamentary election on June 5th and 12th, if the opinion polls are right, the Socialists could win 350 or more of the 577 seats in the assembly. In his gnomic way, Mr Mitterrand was warning his party not to believe that France is swinging left.
So far as France's election system allows, voters recently seem to have been asking for ...