As France was liberated from the allies pepole began clamor inch for the restoration of the republic but de Gaulle manged to convince them to wait on V-E day there were calls for elections after the celebrations de Gaulle manges to convince the pepole to wait until Japan's surrender to hold elections stating that it whould be not be responsible to hold elections before the Japanese were fully defeated on August 15th 1945 five days later on August 20th after a five day organization as elections were called there were three main party's the popular republican movement the communist party of France and the French section of the workers international (socialist) meanwhile in Eastern Europe the Soviet Union makes a major international blunder when the British and Americans discover the soviets are arming Austrian communists in there side of the occupation zone. Having recently come down with a cold and generally and heartfuly believing that communism and capitalism whould fight to the death and was easily persuaded into believing sending arms to the Austrian communists was a good idea by his more aggressive courtiers this majorly damaged the reputation of the french communist party when they did not condem the arming so when the pepole of France went to the poles the results were 26.1% popular republican 24.9% socialists and 23.8% communist and with the three parties alliance passed cementing de Gaulle's position as prime minister the only question being who whould be vice premier and with the election the vice premier became Maurice Schumann became vice premier
Pods arming of Austrian commies
Earlier French elections
Pods arming of Austrian commies
Earlier French elections