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Mauroy, Pierre

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Mauroy, Pierre (pyĕr môrwä`), 1928–, French politician. Educated at the École National d'Apprentissage de Cachan, he was a teacher and an active member of the new Socialist party from the 1960s. During the 1970s, he was second only to François Mitterrand Mitterrand, François Maurice , 1916–96, French political leader, president of France, 1981–95. Initially a supporter of Pétain's Vichy government during World War II, he joined the Resistance in 1943.
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 in the party. As premier from 1982 to 1984, his policies were left wing, but his credibility did not survive when Mitterrand moved economically to the right and Laurent Fabius Fabius, Laurent , 1946– French politician. After graduating from the École National d'Administration, he became an auditor at the Council of State and has been a Socialist National Assembly deputy since 1978.
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 became premier. Mauroy defeated Fabius for the party leadership in 1988 and worked to unify the party for future elections until he was replaced by Fabius in 1992.


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