Rightists win small gains in France
NZPA-Reuter Toulouse France’s ruling Rightwing alliance has made modest vote gains in a Parliamentary by-election but failed to reinforce its narrow National Assembly majority. Yesterday’s poll in the Haute-Garonne region of south-west France divided eight Parliamentary seats evenly between the U.D.F.-R.P.R. alliance and the opposition Socialist Party. The equal share repeats earlier results for the area in General Elections in March and leaves the
Right’s wafer-thin Parliamentary majority of three unchanged. The March results were annulled because of irregularities. The poll was the first test of strength between Left and Right since the Gaullist Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, took office after the Socialists’ defeat in the March election. It also coincided with indirect elections for’ onethird of 319 Senate seats that reinforced the Right’s traditional dominance of France’s upper house.
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Press, 30 September 1986, Page 8
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