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ONE DAY IN POLITICS. Badly in shape after the first round, the president nevertheless wants to believe in his stroke of genius and win the parliamentary elections.
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By Florent Barraco
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« Ofin this regime, everything that is successful is thanks to the President of the Republic. Everything that goes wrong is blamed on the Prime Minister. “This is how Jacques Chaban-Delmas summed up the Ve Republic. In May 1997, Alain Juppé is the receptacle of everything that is wrong. And there are some things that are wrong: the divide is social. The country has been paralyzed by major strikes; the mayor of Bordeaux is unpopular; the legislative elections of 1998 are expected to be catastrophic. Except that on April 21, Jacques Chirac chose to dissolve the National Assembly and thus cause elections. The maneuver, stemming from the brain of Dominique de Villepin, the powerful secretary general of the Élysée, must surprise the left, remobilize the electorate and save the furniture. “The best fic plans…
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