FRENCH ELECTIONS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 5

FRENCH ELECTIONS

RISE IN COVER X.M ENT STOCK HEAYY COMMUNIST VOTE soirr) support for cabinet (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). (Times Cable.) London, Apni The Bourse is pleased with the French elections. Government stock rose sharply. The. real mind : f France, however, will not lie revealed until Sunday. Nevertheless, AT. Poincare's mandate to stabilise the francs is likely to he renewed. The Communist vote is heavy, numbering 115.000. The Times’ Paris correspondent states that second ballots are necessary in 430 constituencies next Sunday. On. the first ballot for Chamber of Deputies, 1 75 candidates have been elected, of whom Democratic Republicans number 72. Left Republicans 41, Radical Republicans 15, Radical Socialists 16, Republican Socialists 4, Socialists 14, Conservatives 13. No Communists- were elected. The second ballots for tho remaining 427 seats, take place next Sunday. The majority of the successful candidates declared themselves as supporting the Government’s policy.