TO SURVIVE DE GAULLE
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TABLE I
Professions of UNR Deputies*
|
ι и Workers & Farmers & Gov*t.) ______ |
111 Liberal |
IV Business Industry |
V |
Totals | |||
|
1958 |
UNR Deputies |
11 (6%) |
13 (7%) |
112 (57%) |
54 (27%) |
8 (4%) |
198 |
|
All non-UNR Deputies |
20 (7%) 41 (15%) |
152 (57%) |
51 (19%) |
3 (1%) |
267 465 | ||
|
1962 |
UNR Deputies |
16 (7%) |
13 (6%) |
ɪ 14 (50%) |
71 (31%) |
15 (7%) |
229 |
|
All non-UNR Deputies |
46 (19%) 29 (12%) |
120 (51%) |
39 (17%) |
2 (1%) |
236 465 | ||
•Computed from data in Mattei Dogan, “Changement de régime et changement de personnel,”
in Le Rejcrendum de septembre et les élections de novembre. 1958 (‘‘Cahiers de la Fondation
Nationale des Sciences Politiques,” No. 109. Paris, I960), Table IX. p. 267; and Mattei Dogan,
‘‘Note sur le nouveau personnel parlementaire." in Le Référendum d'octobre et les élections de
novembre, 1962 (‘‘Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,” No. 142. Paris, 1965),
Table, p. 431.
eighteen percent of the Independents (as opposed to only six percent of
the Gaullists) were farmers. Thirdly, the majority of the UNR “business-
men” (41 of 71) were managerial personnel, probably mostly with large
corporations, whereas Independent “businessmen” were listed as “mer-
chants” or “industrialists,” many of whom undoubtedly were attached to
family-owned enterprises. Again in comparison with the UNR group, the
MRP delegation included more farmers (28%) and fewer professional men
(36%), and the Radicals included more professional men (67%) and fewer
businessmen (19%). In the character of the UNR group in the National
Assembly, one sees some reflection of the UNR’s emphasis on youth and
new talent in politics, of its strength in urban areas, and of its interest in
young managerial personnel.
If these are the notables of Gaullism, what kinds of voters rally to the
Cross of Lorraine? Restricting our attention to the Fifth Republic, a clear
distinction must be made between what we shall term the “extended” and
the “restricted” Gaullist electorates. The extended electorate is made up of
that absolute majority of voters which has responded “yes” to de Gaulle
in the great plebiscites of the Fifth Republic, notably the referendum of
October, 1962, on the constitutional amendment providing for direct, pop-
ular election of the President (when 62 percent of those voting voted
“yes”), and which supported him in the first popular presidential election
in December, 1965 (when de Gaulle won 55 percent of the votes in the
second runoff ballot against François Mitterand). The smaller electorate
(17.5%, 36.3%, and 38.2%) is composed of those voters who voted for