ELECTIONS IN LAOS
Left-Wing Defeat
VIENTIANE, April 26. Laos has returned a conservative pro-Western Government to the National Assembly and routed the pro-Comm’inist candidates.
Latest results from Sunday’s election showed today that Rightwing candidates now hold or are certain of 36 of the 59 seats in the Assembly. The pro-Communist Neo Lao Haksat Party candidates were leading in only two seats and the the entire bloc of eight Left-wing Neutralist Party candidates has been defeated. Observers speculated that the Laotians, by spurning the Left so decisively, have risked a return of last year’s crisis when Pathet Lao rebels in the north mounted a long drawn out guerilla offensive and a team of United Nations observers was sent in.
During the election, reports came in of increased rebel activities in the northern provinces, were Laos borders Communist China and Communist North Vietnam.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29189, 27 April 1960, Page 17
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