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The French legislative elections took place on 23 and 30 November 1958 to elect the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic.Since 1954 the French Fourth Republic had been mired in the Algerian War. In May 1958 Pierre Pflimlin a Christian-Democrat became Prime Minister. He was known to be in favour of a negotiated settlement with the Algerian nationalists.On 13 May riots broke out in Algiers with the complicity of the army.
