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    Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (French: [alɛ̃ pɔɛʁ]; 17 April 1909 – 9 December 1996) was a French politician who served as President of the Senate from...
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    the president, the Senate's president takes over as acting president. Alain Poher is the only person to have served in this temporary position, and has...
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    the French Presidency. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2022. "Alain Poher (1909–1996)" (in French). Official website of the French Presidency....
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    weakened by the decision of centrist interim President Alain Poher to run. As Chairman of the Senate, Poher had led the "no" campaign in the referendum. The...
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    République française. Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) Served 1959–1969 Alain Poher (1909–1996) Served 1969, 1974 (as interim) Georges Pompidou (1911–1974)...
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  • former footballer Alain Peyrefitte (1925–1999), French scholar and politician Alain Poher (1909–1996), French centrist politician Alain Poiré (1917–2000)...
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    presidents of France sorted by length of tenure.   Incumbent president Alain Poher, as President of the Senate was called on to serve as Interim President...
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    Poher is an ancient principality that emerged in the Early Middle Ages in Cornouaille in west-central Brittany. Its capital was the Gallo-Roman city of...
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    he defeated the centrist president of the Senate and acting president Alain Poher by a wide margin (58% to 42%). Though a Gaullist, Pompidou was more pragmatic...
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    Republic until a new election can be held. This has already occurred twice. Alain Poher, the president of the French Senate, served as Acting President of France...
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