André Tardieu

André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu, or simply just André Tardieu, is the current Prime Minister of France and a member of the Alliance démocratique. Tardieu is a strong conservative Prime Minister along with President Albert Lebrun. Following the events of the March on Paris in May 1930, Tardieu and Lebrun committed themselves to clamping down on socialism in the public and in the government as much as possible. Because of this, Tardieu has become a hate figure amongst many French socialists, and some have even tried to assassinate him, albeit unsuccessfully.

Tardieu's current struggles as Prime Minister is maintaining the straight and narrow in the government. The alliance of conservative parties in the government against socialism has bred ideas of monarchism (and in some rare cases, Fascism) which has left the government strongly divided. Tardieu maintained that the government had to remain a unified bulwark against the likes of German Spartacism and communism, and has stated on many account that if France were to fall, then the German Socialist Republic would be able to reclaim their lands, which France cannot afford to do.