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    Georges René Louis Marchais (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) ʁəne lwi maʁʃɛ]; 7 June 1920 – 16 November 1997) was the head of the French Communist Party...
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    heavy losses in the ensuing parliamentary elections, the party adopted Georges Marchais as leader and in 1973 entered into a "Common Programme" alliance with...
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  • up marchais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marchais may refer to: Auguste Marchais (1872–1951), French athlete and Olympian Georges Marchais (1920–1997)...
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    succeeded as secretary-general by Georges Marchais, who had effectively controlled the party since 1970. Marchais began a moderate liberalization of...
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    Communist leaders were very disappointed by the result of their candidate, Georges Marchais, in the presidential election, and very worried by the legislative...
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    was employed in a psychiatrical institution in Argenteuil. Close to Georges Marchais, Hue climbed the steps in the Party hierarchy, being also elected mayor...
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    force was cemented by a 1977 meeting in Madrid between Berlinguer, Georges Marchais, and Santiago Carrillo. Berlinguer described his alternative model...
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    Mitterrand signed the Common Programme of Government with the Communist Georges Marchais and the Left Radical Robert Fabre. With this programme, he led the...
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  • Liliane Marchais (24 August 1935 – 9 April 2020) was a French communist activist. Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker...
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    health. In 1970, as Rochet had become too ill to attend to his duties, Georges Marchais became the de facto Party leader, while Rochet remained National Secretary...
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    the non-socialist left had registered a double figure result since Georges Marchais in 1981. In the 2012 French legislative election, Mélenchon represented...
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    sixth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. On 2 April 1974, President Georges Pompidou died. The non-Gaullist centre-right leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
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  • two parties failed to update the Common Programme and the PCF leader Georges Marchais denounced a "turn towards the Right" of the PS. In spite of positive...
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    708,262 51.76 Jacques Chirac Rally for the Republic 5,225,848 18.00 Georges Marchais French Communist Party 4,456,922 15.35 Brice Lalonde Political Ecology...
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    his 1969 referendum caused his resignation. His former Prime minister Georges Pompidou was elected President of France. In order to respond to the discontent...
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  • canceled in 1995. François Mitterrand: Kermitterrand, as Kermit the Frog Georges Marchais: Marchy la cochonne as Miss Piggy Raymond Barre: Barzzie as Fozzie...
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    (1st round) 28.25% (2nd round)   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Georges Marchais Jean-Marie Le Pen Party PCF FN Leader's seat none Last election 27...
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    Minority party Third party   Leader Jacques Chirac Laurent Fabius Georges Marchais Party UOR PS PCF Leader's seat Corrèze Seine-Maritime Val-de-Marne...
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    (1st round) 23.09% (2nd round)   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Georges Marchais Jean-Marie Le Pen Party PCF FN Leader's seat none Last election 35...
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    Allier in the 8th legislature. A close collaborator of party leader Georges Marchais, he was chosen to be the PCF's candidate in the 1988 presidential election...
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  • French Resistance leader Georges Mandjeck, Cameroonian footballer Georges Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player Georges Marchais, general secretary of the...
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  • In the 1981 elections it offered the French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais "savagely critical support" if he ran against François Mitterrand....
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  • was supported by the PRG and the MDC. In 1994, Robert Hue succeeded Georges Marchais as head of the PCF. Responding to the fall of communism in Eastern...
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    Jaruzelski Franz Muhri (de) Louis Van Geyt Jørgen Jensen Marcus Bakker Georges Marchais Jimmy Carter Harold Brown David C. Jones SACEUR: Gen. Alexander Haig...
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    PCI's Enrico Berlinguer, the PCE's Santiago Carrillo and the PCF's Georges Marchais met in Madrid and laid out the fundamental lines of the "new way"....
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  • vote, he won the best result for a PCF-affiliated candidate since Georges Marchais had won 15% in the 1981 presidential election. Furthermore, Mélenchon...
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  • Party Leader % Seats UDF Simone Veil 27.61 25 PS–MRG François Mitterrand 23.53 22 PCF Georges Marchais 20.52 19 RPR Jacques Chirac 16.31 15...
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    classed as a Monument historique La Hoguette was the birthplace of Georges Marchais (1920–1997), head of the French Communist Party. Communes of the Calvados...
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    by René Camphin [fr]. Albert Ouzoulias was in charge of operations, and Georges Beyer was responsible for armaments and recruitment. Marcel Prenant [fr]...
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  • Party Leader % Seats +/– UDF–RPR Simone Veil 43.03 41 +1 PS Lionel Jospin 20.76 20 0 PCF Georges Marchais 11.21 10 −9 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 10.95 10 New...
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