FRENCH POLITICS
GOVT. POSITION INSECURE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' i LONDON. July 9. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” reports that an all-night sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, discussing electoral reform, was marked by a revival of the frenzied disorder and futile obstruction which, disgusted the country during the financial debits in 1926. The fight is raging around a proposal for single-member constituencies, which the Conservatives bitterly oppose. They twice forced a division by ballot, occupying an hour, while four times a Deputy demanded an adjournment, making a lengthy speech in doing so. When discussion was resumed, simiiar tactics were adopted in the afternoon, resulting in the Government apparently losing force. M. Poincare will risk losing the support of the Radicals if he agrees to the Conservative demand to scrap a singlemember constituency, and vice versa, he will lose the Conseravtive vote. In either case the coalition is in a most precarious position.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1927, Page 5
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