Although de Gaulle changed his mind because everything else had failed, he still hoped initially that the RPF would remain above party. Its members were not required to leave whatever party they belonged to. But the other political parties rapidly squashed any idea of ‘dual membership’. The Communists and Socialists were obviously never going to allow it, and the MRP quickly moved to forbid it as well. Two prominent MRP members, Edmond Michelet and Louis Terrenoire, both of whom had been in the Resistance, were expelled from their party when they chose to join the RPF.
