HEAVY POLL IN EAST GERMANY
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) EAST BERLIN, Oct. 11 More than 97 per cent of East Germany’s 12,000,000 electorate voted for candidates of the Communist-dominated National Front in yesterday’s local elections, the official news agency A.D.N. reported.
The results of the elections are expected to be announced later today. The agency said that some of the 16,000 constituencies registered a 100 per cent vote only two hours after the stations opened. For the first time in East Germany’s 16-year history the National Front offered a real choice of personalities—but not of policies. Although the new system has been hailed by Commun-
ist Party leaders as genuinely democratic, observers said it will have little influence on national politics.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 21
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