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    Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (4 March 1920 – 22 February 1993) was a French centrist politician. Lecanuet was born to a family of modest means in Rouen...
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    candidacy led to other politicians entering the race. The MRP leader Jean Lecanuet was nominated by his party and the National Centre of Independents and...
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    Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was the centrist and Christian democratic component of the UDF. Its leader Jean Lecanuet was the first...
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  • The party's long-time leader was Jean Lecanuet. Democratic Centre was founded on 2 February 1966 by Jean Lecanuet after his 1965 presidential campaign...
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  • Assembly and the MRP suffered a serious electoral defeat. In 1963, Jean Lecanuet took the leadership in order to renew the party's image. He was a candidate...
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  • a new "centrist pole" within it, the New Centre led by Hervé Morin. Jean Lecanuet (1978–1988) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1988–1996) François Léotard (1996–1998)...
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    had promised to decriminalize abortion during his campaign however Jean Lecanuet, then Minister of Justice, refused to defend the law on personal and...
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  • right-wing opposition to de Gaulle gathered in the Democratic Centre led by Jean Lecanuet, the "third man" of 1965 presidential election. However some centrists...
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  • with the foundation of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS) in 1976 by Jean Lecanuet, which remained independent of the activities of the senatorial group...
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    Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election. Jean-Jacques Schreiber...
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