FRENCH ELECTIONS

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1932, Page 5

FRENCH ELECTIONS

Yesterday’s Poli WILL LIPTISTS GAIN? (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received May 1 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. The general election campaign has ended in France. The polls are tomorrow (Sunday), but a definite result cannot be expected. Only about one third of the Deputies are likely to be returned at the first ballot. These must obtain not merely more votes than their opponents, but more than half of the votes cast. The fate of the rest will be decided on the second ballot on May 8. The polling booths open at 7 a.m. It is expected that approximately eleven million voters will got to the poll The May Day demonstrations in France are expected, in the circumstanced* to be very quiet. The Premier, M. Tardieu, who is improving in health will listen to the results by wireless in his sick room. The “Observer’s” Paris correspondent, while stressing that it is always difficult to prophesy the result of a French election, says that a definite {swing to the Left, like that of 1924, will naturally make such a Government as M. Tardieu’s Impossible, but .it seems less likely to-day than it did six' months ago.