April 2, 1992: Mitterand names Beregovoy as Prime Minister

Mitterand names Beregovoy as Prime Minister

1992 - Pierre Beregovoy took over the French Prime Minister’s chair from an embittered Edith Cresson and faced the daunting task of lifting the ruling Socialist Party out of the doldrums. Days of uncertainty ended when President Francois Mitterrand announced that Cresson had resigned and Finance and Economy Minister Beregovoy had moved in. Despite being the Fifth Republic’s shortest-serving and most unpopular Prime Minister, Cresson left with a typically frank parting shot at her mentor, the president, and party. Cresson had continually complained to Mitterrand that it was Beregovoy, with his tight control of the purse strings, who had thwarted her plans. Beregovoy, 67, admitted that he had “no miracle solution” to the nation’s problems,.

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