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well, you can't call France a democracy
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because women didn't have the right to vote,
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but it's a parliamentary regime.
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And Jean Jaurès by his personal charisma
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and intellectual energy
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becomes the unifying force of the French Socialist party.
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And, again, in 1981 when Francois Mitterrand
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was elected president of France,
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the first thing he does,
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as the cameras follow him around the Panthéon,
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he goes and to pay homage to Jean Jaurès.
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So, what--his importance is he creates a unified Socialist Party