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François Bazin is the author of a landmark book, “Le Sorcier de l'Élysée.
The secret life of Jacques Pilhan” (Plon, 2009), political book prize.
Last published work: “Have I got it down well?
Politics in the sights of writers” (Bouquins, 2022).
LE FIGARO.
- In June 1988, in the second round of legislative elections, the PS and its allies lacked around fifteen seats to obtain an absolute majority in the new Assembly.
Is it then a surprise when one remembers that Mitterrand had declared that it was “not healthy for a single party to govern”?
FRANCOIS BAZIN.
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To understand, you have to put your quote in context.
It intervenes in Solutré, in the course of an exchange with the press, before the first round of legislative elections caused by a dissolution, at a time when all the polls announce a pink wave of the magnitude of that of 1981. Or Mitterrand intends then to show that this era, with the excesses that accompanied it, is over.
It is henceforth…
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