In the third round, Poncelet received 189 votes against 93 for Socialist candidate Claude Estier and one vote for the withdrawn Communist candidate Hélène Luc.
Torn between joining the Communist Party (PCF) and a simple way of companionship, he took his sensitivity and communistic neutralist when he joined the original core of Nouvel Observateur.
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