De Gaulle’s programme of June 1958 resembled Lacoste’s discarded loi-cadre with added impetus
Evidence
Still more effort and money would be expended on the Algerian economy and on education. New efforts would be made to win the war militarily. Lacoste’s loi-cadre was swept away, but there would be a single electoral roll, with free elections, and now with a date fixed. There would be a referendum to say Yes or No to de Gaulle’s remodelled constitution giving the republic a new backbone of steel; all Frenchmen would cast their vote in it, and countries of the Commonwealth would be entitled to decide whether or not they wished to be associated with it. It would be the first occasion that the Algerians were to be invited to vote on the new single electoral role. This was to be on 28 September. Then, in November, there would be elections for the National Assembly to confirm de Gaulle as Prime Minister, followed, in December, by new presidential elections. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 931
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘mixture as before’ continuity echoes the reader’s theme of the French Revolution’s legacy of reform-then-repression cycles. — connects to: De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution.; De Gaulle restructured Algerian governance into a two-tier hierarchy to tighten control.; De Gaulle’s Algerian programme initially resembled previous policy
Related
- De Gaulle restructured Algerian governance into a two-tier hierarchy to tighten control. (similarity 0.90)
- De Gaulle’s Algerian programme initially resembled previous policy (similarity 0.84)
- De Gaulle’s delay on Algeria stemmed from overhauling France’s whole system (similarity 0.84)
- The loi-cadre sought a federal-partition hybrid for Algeria under French sovereignty (similarity 0.81)
- De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution. (similarity 0.81)
- De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.80)
- De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader (similarity 0.79)
- De Gaulle’s political successes could not translate into any Algerian peace progress (similarity 0.79)
- Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.79)