Alternate France

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Very Good

Thankfully you've added French Presidential maps. It would be cool if you had some First Round ones though.....

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Very Good

Thankfully you've added French Presidential maps. It would be cool if you had some First Round ones though.....

Little use in that, Lecanuet did well in Brittany and Alsace where Pompidou was in the 40%-50% range. Duclos won the 93, Nord, Pas de Calais, and the Somme.

Fair enough. Either way, great to see some French Presidential maps

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Continues to be quite good. In your face Mitterand!

This is giving me ideas of my own, Iron Bob loses in '61 anyone?

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Firstly just a question about French Politics in General. This might sound like a stupid question to you but I'd thought I'd ask it. What is the difference between President and Prime Minister in France?

Looking forward to the upcoming 1981 Presidential Election, any ideas on potential candidates? Will Chirac and Le Pen run?

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Firstly just a question about French Politics in General. This might sound like a stupid question to you but I'd thought I'd ask it. What is the difference between President and Prime Minister in France?

In normal cases ('normal' doesn't apply to Sarkozy oc):

President: head of state; takes care of foreign policy (and in Sarkozy's case, attend the funerals of everybody). Promulgates laws, names PM (but can't fire him), C-i-C of the armies, grant pardons, dissolve Assembly, name other officials etc.
PM: head of government; takes care on interal stuff/unpopular social policy.

Looking forward to the upcoming 1981 Presidential Election, any ideas on potential candidates? Will Chirac and Le Pen run?

Wait and see

Thanks for clearing that up .

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Next: Campaign '81! Are we ready?

YES!

I really hope that the next update involves the 1981 Presidential Election Hashemite. I wonder who the candidates will be?

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Great to see this Timeline of yours back up and running Hashemite. It is one of my favourite timelines on the Election What If's board presently. Shame you couldn't tell us whether Giscard or Mitterand won the French Presidency though, you better by the next update or else....