FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ELECTION, 1962

'French legislative elections' took place on November 18 and 25, 1962 to elect the 2nd National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
Since 1959 and the change of Algerian policy (Charles de Gaulle decided in favour of the "self-government" and "Algerian Algeria"), France faced bomb attacks by the Secret Armed Organization (''Organisation armée secrète'' or OAS) which opposed the independence of Algeria, negotiated by the FLN with the March 1962 Evian agreements, approved by referendum by the French people.
In the same time, whereas Georges Pompidou replaced Michel Debré as Prime minister, the center-right parties (MRP and CNIP) left the majority in due to de Gaulle's eurosceptic declaration.
On August 22, de Gaulle ecaped from an assaassination attempt by the OAS in Le Petit-Clamart. In the general emotion, he announced a referendum in which he proposed the election of the President of the French Republic under universal suffrage. If the presidential majority composed of the UNR and the Independent Republicans (RI) (which came from a CNIP split) campaigned for the "yes", all the others parties formed a "coalition of no" and defeated Pompidou's cabinet by refusing to vote a confidence motion in the Parliament.
However, de Gaulle finally won the referendum and dissolved the National Assembly. The subsequent legislative elections saw a progress of the left-wing opposition. However, the conservative voters sanctioned the center-right parties, preferring to vote for the Gaullist party. Pompidou became prime minister again.

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