From de Gaulle to Hollande, each presidency shows that ten months before the next presidential election, the political context does not allow the outcome of the ballot to be predicted.
1964: de Gaulle in majesty
The long miners' strike that shook the spring of 1963 is a distant memory.
The plan to “cool down” the economy is producing its first effects and it is a serene France which is preparing to celebrate Jacques Anquetil's last victory in the Tour de France.
Majority in opinion, de Gaulle has no doubt of being elected in the first round in the first election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage.
The candidacy of Gaston Defferre, alias "Mr. X", does not take.
In the spring of 1964, the PCF led Waldeck Rochet, who took a step towards the union of the left while a solitary deputy, François Mitterrand, published an anti-Gaullist pamphlet,
Le Coup d'Etat permanent.
No one yet imagines that in 1965 he will be the sole candidate of the left,
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