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Appropriating the “No”: The French National Front, the Vote on the Constitution, and the “New” April 21

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2006

Mabel Berezin
Mabel Berezin
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Cornell University
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On the evening of May 26, 2005, with the polls suggesting that the European Constitution was veering toward defeat, Jacques Chirac made a final exhortation to the French public. He argued that the French were voting not on a sectarian political issue but on an issue that would determine the future of themselves, their children, France, and Europe. Chirac characterized the choice before French citizens as “neither right nor left.” His use of a phrase more commonly associated with Vichy displayed an uncharacteristic historical amnesia and suggests that Chirac and his party were grabbing at straws in those final days.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 269 - 272
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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