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The Nome Nugget
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In French runoff elections on Sunday, Charles de Gaulle's right-wing UNR party won 32.1% of the vote and 188 seats in the National Assembly, securing a majority with conservatives. Communists dropped to 10 seats despite 22.9% vote share. Jacques Soustelle emerged as a key figure.
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By GEORGE McARTHUR
PARIS, (AP) - Right-wingers waving the banner of Premier Charles De Gaulle flattened the Communists, badly trimmed more moderate parties and swept to firm control of the new French National Assembly today.
The Communists held 22.9 percent of the popular vote but captured only 10 of the 149 seats they had held in the last National Assembly in the man-to-man runoff elections in France Sunday.
Among the losers was the fiery Communist mouthpiece and organizer Jacques Duclos.
Toppled like shooting gallery ducks were many of the ex-premiers, ministers and wheelhorses of the center parties.
Dark-browed Jacques Soustelle became the man to watch in the new Fifth Republic. It was Soustelle who eluded police, escaped to Algeria and gave political direction the rightist movement that crumpled the Fourth Republic (UNR), captured 32.1 percent of the vote and 188 of the 465 seats from European France. Not since 1946, when Communists elected 174 deputies, has a party held such a large block of seats.
The conservative votes of 120 independent and present deputies, combined with the UNR's 188, gave the rightists a clear majority.
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France
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Sunday
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unr captured 32.1 percent of the vote and 188 of 465 seats; communists 22.9 percent vote but only 10 seats; rightists gained clear majority with 120 conservative votes.
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Right-wingers supporting Premier Charles De Gaulle won firm control of the new French National Assembly in Sunday's runoff elections, defeating Communists and moderate parties. Jacques Soustelle, who escaped to Algeria, directed the UNR movement that led to this victory in the Fifth Republic.