When he entered political life at the end of the Fourth Republic, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing flirted both with the radicals (Edgar Faure) and with what was then called the National Center for Independents and Peasants (CNIP) by Antoine Pinay.
But, very quickly, as it is not intended to remain the number two of anyone, anywhere, the future president creates his own troops: they will be the independent Republicans, supported by the think tank of the clubs Perspectives and Realities.
There are his two loyal lieutenants, Michel Poniatowski, future Minister of the Interior, and Michel d'Ornano, mayor of Deauville, future Minister of Industry and unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Paris against Jacques Chirac.
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The centrists, opposed to General de Gaulle, were divided in 1969 during the election of Georges Pompidou: the Democracy and Progress Center (CDP) of Jacques Duhamel (future Minister of Culture), Joseph Fontanet and René Pleven joined the future president enters
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