Pompidou v. Pinay v. Deffere, 1969

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Defferre was never the type of candidate that would personally approve of an alliance with the PCF (he'd rather eat his left arm than endorse a Communist, imo) nor would the PCF also approve of it.

Defferre, however, was a better candidate for an alliance with the centre, though maybe more in 1965.

IIRC, an alliance a la 1965/1974 between the FGDS-left and the PCF was never realistically on the table.