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left-wing non-Communist forces. This strategy was confirmed by the relatively good electoral result of Mitterrand, who succeeded to prevent a re-election of De Gaulle in the first round, and obtained 45% of the votes against him in the second round. Furthermore, the PCF/FGDS electoral agreements permitted to shrink the Gaullist parliamentary majority after the
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François Mitterrand then proposed to be candidate with a strategy of union between the left-wing forces, including the PCF. This one accepted to support his candidature. Nevertheless, in order to talk on an equal footing with the Communists, he advocated the constitution of a federation of the
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proposed the creation of a "Great Federation" gathering the center-left and the center-right parties in order to resist to the
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events, François Mitterrand announced his candidature for an anticipated presidential election. He thought
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Before the beginning of the 1965 presidential campaign, the non-Communist left was divided. The Socialist
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and to counterbalance the Communist preponderance over the French left.
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would resign after the crisis. Finally, de Gaulle dissolved the
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