Monsieur Colbert or Madame Thatcher? (elections called by French Pres Jacques Chirac are not likely to lead to end of the centralized state in favor of a free market)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US) | April 26, 1997 | Copyright

PARIS

AMID the swirl of rumour leading up to the calling of a snap election this week, many have speculated that France-if the right wins again-will swing away from the tradition of state dirigisme espoused in the past by many Gaullists of the ruling Rally for the Republic (RPR) towards the less ambiguously free market preferred by most of their centre-right allies in the Union for French Democracy (UDF). Not so, implied France's president, Jacques Chirac, when he announced the coming poll to his compatriots. He was against a "laisser-faire, laisser-aller" approach, ...

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