This politician's "La Baule" speech promoted democracy in his country's former African colonies, and his Defense Minister Charles Hernu resigned in the wake of Operation Satanique.
This politician's "La Baule" speech promoted democracy in his country's former African colonies, and his Defense Minister Charles Hernu resigned in the wake of Operation Satanique. One of this man's prime ministers committed suicide after Roger-Patrice Pelat was implicated in the Pechiney-Triangle scandal, and as President, this man green-lighted the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Prime Ministers in his second term included Pierre Bérégovoy and Edouard Balladur, and this man worked with Helmut Kohl to create the Maastricht Treaty. His predecessor was Valéry d'Estaing, and he was succeeded by a man with whom he had a very uneasy cohabitation, Jacques Chirac. For ten points, name this longest-serving and first Socialist President of France.
This politician's "La Baule" speech promoted democracy in his country's former African colonies, and his Defense Minister Charles Hernu resigned in the wake of Operation Satanique.
François Maurice Adrien Marie {Mitterrand}