Many are the candidates or not yet candidates for the presidential election who refer to Georges Pompidou.
The action of the former President of the Republic from 1969 to 1974 inspires the contenders for 2022. Applicants who, at the same time, also venerate General de Gaulle.
Is it compatible?
Read the excellent
Intimate History of the Fifth Republic.
The start,
of Franz-Olivier Giesbert (Gallimard), it is allowed to doubt.
Certainly, Georges Pompidou was the Prime Minister of the General from 1962 to 1968.
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Franz-Olivier Giesbert: "De Gaulle believed in the difference of civilizations"
Certainly, he inscribed his footsteps in those of his illustrious predecessor at the Elysee Palace.
But the latter had been visibly annoyed for a while by his behavior.
And this since 1967, as FOG demonstrates:
"Contrary to legend, the disgrace of Pompidou does not date from 1968 but from 1967."
After the legislative elections, de Gaulle wishes to relaunch one of his last major projects: employee profit-sharing in companies.
But his Prime Minister, not very enthusiastic ...
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