NEW PRESIDENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 7

NEW PRESIDENT.

PROBABILITY IN FRANCE. ELECTION EXPECTED ON FRIDAY. VBT CABLE—PBE33 ASSOCIATION COFYBXOHT.) (AUSTBALIAN and n.z. cable association.) (Received June 9th, 8.10 p.m.) PARIS, Juno 8. M. Francois-Marsal has virtually completed a stop-gap Cabinet, including MM. Lefebre du Prey (Foreign Affairs) and Maginot (War). All. the members belong to the Bloc National, and almost all were members of M. Millerand's or M. Poincare's Cabinets. It is understood that the President's message to Parliament, a draft of which he communicated to prospective members of the Cabinet in the afternoon, declares that the new majority's determination to cut short his seven years' tenure of the Presidency amounts to a coup de force in violation of the Constitution, asks Parliament to state by an unequivocal vote whether it sanctions such a dangerous precedent, and asserts that he has acted constitutionally throughout his Presidentship. It is a foregone conclusion that the Chamber will vote against M. Millerand, and it is expected that a new President will be elected by the National Assembly at Versailles on Friday, and that M. Herriot's Cabinet will thereupon be formed. [The President of France is elected for seven years, by an absolute majority of votes, by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies united in a National Assembly, or Congress. M. Millerand was elected on September 23rd, 1920.] (by cable—press association copyright.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 9th, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, June 9. The general impression is that M. Francois-Marsal's Government is only a prelude to President Millerand's retirement, which will he necessary after the Chamber and Senate refuse to accept the Prime Minister's justification for M Millerand's attitude. M. Francois-Marsal takes the Premiership and the portfolio of Finance, while M. de Selves retains the portfolio of the Interior.