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The French legislative elections took place on 16 March 1986 to elect the 8th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. Contrary to other legislative elections of the Fifth Republic the electoral system used was that of Party-list proportional representation.Since the 1981 election of François Mitterrand the Presidential Majority was divided. In March 1983 Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy renounced the left’s radical Common Programme which had been agreed in the 1970s.
