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President Charles de Gaulle threatened to resign if the reforms were refused. The opposition urged people to vote no, and the president was equally hindered by popular former right-wing prime minister Georges Pompidou, who would stand as a presidential candidate if de Gaulle were to leave, reducing the fear of a power vacuum felt by the right-wing Gaullist electorate.
In the presidential election, the Gaullist Party (Union of Democrats for the Republic, UDR) was represented by former Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.He was very popular in the conservative electorate due to economic growth when he led the cabinet (from 1962 to 1968) and his role in the settlement of the May 68 crisis and winning the June 1968 legislative campaign.
One of de Gaulle's grandsons, also named Charles de Gaulle, was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004, his last tenure being for the far-right National Front. [187] The younger Charles de Gaulle's move to the anti-Gaullist National Front was widely condemned by other family members.
Charles de Gaulle's tenure as the 18th president of France officially began on 8 January 1959. In 1958, during the Algerian War, he came out of retirement and was appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty.
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) 3 June 1944 26 January 1946 1 year, 237 days Independent: 1944: Following the Liberation of France, the Committee of National Liberation evolved into a Provisional Government, with de Gaulle as its Chairman. He resigned abruptly in January 1946, after a failed attempt to centralise executive power.
The RPF was founded by Charles de Gaulle in Strasbourg on 14 April 1947, [2] one year after his resignation from the presidency of the provisional government and four months after the proclamation of the Fourth Republic. It advocated a constitutional revision establishing a presidential government.
On 1 June 1958, Charles de Gaulle was appointed head of the government; [10] on 3 June 1958, a constitutional law empowered the new government to draft a new constitution of France, [3] and another law granted Charles de Gaulle and his cabinet the power to rule by decree for up to six months, except on certain matters related to the basic ...
Charles de Gaulle in his military uniform c. 1942. Gaullism (French: Gaullisme, ) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic. [1]