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Giscard d'Estaing

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Gis·card d'Es·taing  (zh-skär ds-tng, -t), Valéry Born 1926.
French political leader who as president of France (1974-1981) struggled against rising inflation and unemployment.

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While Nixon and Ford policies raised discontent among the gathering force of sunbelt Republicans in the 1970s, the moderate liberalism embodied by President Giscard d'Estaing (1974-81) alienated Chirac's neo-Gaullist base.
Among them was the constitution's main architect, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing who fumed that countries that reject the treaty will be asked to vote again.
A political operator with no clear convictions, Chirac either betrayed and helped eliminate (Jacques Chaban-Delmas in 1974 and Valrry Giscard d'Estaing in 1981) or defeated at the polls (Raymond Barre and Edouard Balladur) personalities from his own camp with much stronger pro-reform credentials and vision.
 
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