MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!
Kalwejt
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« on: September 05, 2013, 07:11:36 PM » |
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Rocard? There's no way on earth he would be supported by the SFIO and I'm doubtful about the PFC too. The only candidate from PSU who could unite the left was Pierre Mendes-France, but an old stubborn prick declined to run cuz he opposed the direct presidential election.
Remember that in 1968 Rocard represented quite a minor party, with awful lot of bad blood between them and the SFIO, rivalizing with the Communist on ideological grounds and being a synonymous with the May 1968 and it's rejection by the electorate (if I'm not mistaken, the PSU lost all seats that year). It's not 1980s/1990s Rocard that led the PS moderate wing we're talking about.
Ironic as it it, Mitterrand was pretty much the only politician who could unite the left before the PS was established, because he wasn't a member of a party (thus posed no threat to dinosaurs like Mollet... well, at least they believed so) and wasn't hostile to the Communits (like Defferee, who wanted to continue the isolation and go to bed with the centre-right).
Remember that in 1968 Rocard represented quite a minor party, with awful lot of bad blood between them and the SFIO, rivalizing with the Communist on ideological grounds
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