No appointment can have been more disagreeable to swallow than the choice of his arch-enemy René Capitant, the apostle of participation, as Minister of Justice. Like many other left Gaullists, Capitant had been destabilized by the events of May. When the opposition presented a motion of censure against the Pompidou government on 19 May, he had announced that, as a Gaullist, he would have to vote with the opposition.
