1986 French legislative election

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Legislative elections were held in France on 16 March 1986 to elect the eighth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. Because of the 47th of the 110 Propositions for France, this election was conducted under a system of party-list proportional representation, unlike other legislative elections of the Fifth Republic. Since the 1981 election of François Mitterrand, the Presidential majority in the legislature had become fractured. In March 1983 Prime Minister Mauroy renounced the left's radical Common Programme of the 1970s. Wages and prices had been frozen. This change of economic policy was justified by the will to stay in the European Monetary System. A year later, all Communist ministers left Laurent Fabius's cabinet. In opposition, the two main right-wing parties tried to forget their past quarrels. They were able to win the mid-term elections (1982: departmental, 1983: municipal, 1984: European Parliamentary) and succeeded in forcing the government to abandon its policy of limiting...

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