Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister, deplores French pandering, as he sees it, to America.
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RPR's co-founders, Charles Pasqua, peeled off before the summer's European elections, soon to create a rival Gaullist party.
Joseph Pasqua, of security firm Symantec, thinks that those in stealth mode would likely be moving through duller waters.
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Look at the Rally for France: its Gaullist leader, Charles Pasqua, many times a minister, failed even to qualify as a presidential candidate.
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Mr Pasqua has already rebuffed Mrs Alliot-Marie's talk of reconciliation.
Mr Pasqua made it clear that he would fight Mr Chirac for the presidency but would not try to influence the Gaullists' choice of a candidate to run Paris.
Mr Pasqua, no friend to immigrants when he was interior minister, will surely have had that in mind when he decided to go ahead with his separate, right-wing list for the coming Euro-elections.
Mr Duelfer's report gives a long list of those believed to have received vouchers, including the Russian president's office and foreign ministry, Indonesia's outgoing president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, and Charles Pasqua, a former French interior minister.
So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.
Though they tend to be minorities within broader political groupings, together they scooped up about a third of the vote in last month's elections to the European Parliament, with Mr Pasqua's lot unexpectedly winning 13%, a shade more than Mr Chirac's own mainstream Gaullists.
Others, such as Charles Pasqua, who, as leader of the right-wing Rally for France, reckons himself truer to the Gaullist tradition than Mr Chirac, believe the quinquennat will upset the whole institutional balance and will not, in any event, rule out further periods of cohabitation when, as now, president and prime minister are from opposing parties.
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