Suchergebnisse

While 1958 had an immediate effect on the communist vote in most of France, in the departement of Correze, the effect was muffled & delayed. Elsewhere the Communist Party lost that fraction of its vote which had been chiefly a protest against the sterile games of the bourgeois parliament, & which was now attracted by the effective style of the new regime brought in by General C. de Gaulle. In Correze, by contrast, partly as a result of the entrenchment of patterns of hostility induced by violent events at the Liberation, poi were still dominated by the same anti-communist local notables, carrying on in the traditional ways. Thus here the communist vote stayed fairly firm until the Gaullists launched their energetic campaign of Mar 1967. The election was important not only for the changes in party strengths it displayed, but also for the maneuverings within & between parties in order to protect their pol'al positions from the changes triggered off by this Gaullist push. IPSA.