Republican face (France)
See also: republican Face
The republican Front is an electoral coalition of center-left tied in France at the time of the legislative elections of January 1956. Pierre Mendès France then had the appearance of a natural leader of this regrouping. This one was composed of the socialist party SFIO, of the Parti radical socialist, the democratic and socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR) led by François Mitterrand, and of republican-social directed by the gaullist Jacques Chaban-Delmas. The electoral campaign of the republican Face was centered around the need for finding a solution negotiated with the war of Algérie.
January 2nd, 1956, the republican Face collected 29,2% of the votes cast. It obtained a relative majority of 192 seats out of 595 to the National Assembly. It is finally Guy Mollet, general secretary of the SFIO, which has to form the government.
The coalition was surbedded quickly, in particular with the departure of Pierre Mendès France which left the government in May 1956, drawing the conclusions from its dissension in connection with the Algerian policy of Guy Mollet.
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