Forty years ago, on May 10, 1981, François Mitterrand was elected President of the Republic with 15.708 million votes against 14.642 million for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Reelected with 54.02% of the vote against Jacques Chirac in 1988, he remains the man who has exercised the responsibilities of Head of State for the longest time under our different Republics, even if his two seven-year terms were marked by two experiences. of cohabitation, from 1986 to 1988 then from 1993 to 1995.
François Mitterrand is not only the man of alternation within the Fifth Republic, which allowed the left to conquer power after twenty-three years of opposition.
He is also the one who gave it a culture of government, by reconciling it with the institutions of the Fifth Republic that it had never ceased to denounce.
Unlike the Left Cartel of Édouard Herriot in 1924 which went bankrupt in 1926, unlike the Popular Front of Léon Blum in 1936 which failed in 1937, the victory of François Mitterrand
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