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<text id=93TT1367>
<title>
Apr. 05, 1993: Left in the Lurch
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 17
WORLD
Left in the Lurch
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<p>A rightist landslide buries France's ruling Socialists
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<p> "In spite of our mistakes, and there were some, I truly don't
think we deserved this," said former Prime Minister Michel
Rocard as the returns poured in during the first round of
France's parliamentary elections. Voters thought otherwise.
Rocked by scandals and blamed for France's 10.5% unemployment
rate, the ruling Socialists plunged from 34.7% of the vote in
1988 to 17.6%. The conservative alliance between former Prime
Minister Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) and
ex-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French
Democracy took 39.5%, which France's voting system was expected
to translate into a huge majority of about 460 of the 577
National Assembly seats in this past Sunday's runoff. That will
leave Socialist President Francois Mitterrand to "cohabit" with
a hostile rightist majority until his term ends in 1995. His
probable choice as Prime Minister: R.P.R. Deputy and former
Finance Minister Edouard Balladur, 63.
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