EQUALLY DIVIDED
FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
REFERENDUM ON HEW ELECTORAL LAW (Rec. noon.) PARIS, September 10. The National Assembly was divided equally—273 for and 273 against—on a motion to submit the new electoral law to a national referendum. The Socialists and Communists voted against the M.R.P., who, with the Radicals and Conservatives, supported the motion. Behind the debate was the important question whether voting procedure should be maintained at single lists or changed to mixed lists.' Under the present system voters are confronted by a series of lists of candidates of various parties. The voter can vote only for one list, or, in other words, for only one party. The M.R.P. and other supporters of the referendum want a mixed list so that the voter, if he desires, can vote for several candidates of different parties.
The National Assembly sent the report back to' the commission for restudy. '
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Evening Star, Issue 25894, 11 September 1946, Page 7
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147EQUALLY DIVIDED Evening Star, Issue 25894, 11 September 1946, Page 7
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