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Figure · 1916–1996
François Mitterrand
French President
President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995, the first Socialist in the Élysée under the Fifth Republic.
«Union of the left, welfare state and building Europe.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, François Mitterrand sits in the center-left camp. The clearest positions are on economy: strongly towards “equality”; sovereignty: strongly towards “integration”; religion: strongly towards “secularism”; devolution: fairly towards “centralism”. On environment it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is eurocommunism (93%).
Position on the 13 axes
François MitterrandYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
EurocommunismThe Democratic Comrade93%Social democracyThe Social Broker93%Old LabourThe Union in Power87%Closest parties in Europe
Sozialdemokratische Partei DeutschlandsGermany94%
Sozialdemokratische Partei ÖsterreichsAustria93%
Socialistisk FolkepartiDenmark92%
Parti SocialisteFrance92%Similar figures
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