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8 unusual facts about Gaullism


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special Gaullist flavour, which was not much altered under the long Presidency of socialist François Mitterrand (1981-1995).

French legislative election, 1962

However, conservative voters sanctioned the center-right parties, preferring to vote for the Gaullist party.

French legislative election, 1968

The Gaullist Union for the Defence of the Republic became the first party in the French Republic's history to obtain an absolute parliamentary majority.

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He resigned after failing to obtain a majority in a constitutional referendum on a reform of the French Senate.

One particularity of Gaullism is the French embrace of nuclear energy as a means of energy and national independence.

Gaz de France

This plan for a merger between Gaz de France and Suez came under fire from the whole of the political left, which feared the loss of one of the last ways of preventing the price rises experienced over the previous three years, and by the social Gaullists and trade unions.

Marie-France Garaud

A Gaullist, she has a very critical eye on the driftage of the Fifth Republic, losing her regal substance such as a strong state or a centralized power because of decentralization and Maastricht Treaty which monopolizes the sovereignty and so transforms France as an area of the European continent and not a free nation.

Nouvelle Action Royaliste

The ideas of NAR are characterized by souverainism, anti-liberalism and anti-Americanism, and also adherence to the original form of Gaullism.


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Bertrand Renouvin

Very close to the Count of Paris, Renouvin is close to king Simeon II of Bulgaria and his souverainist Gaullism is the result of more than thirty years of public life, at the economic and social council and the leadership of his neo-royalist movement.


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