FRENCH POLITICS
ELECTORAL REFORM QUESTION. CHAMBER FAVOURS ALTERATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, July 7. Contrary to tho request of M. Caillaux, the Premier, the Chamber of Deputies resolved not to defer consideration of the subject of electoral reform until October. Tbo Chamber decided that each department should form a constituency, but when the number of deputies exceeded seven tbo department should be divided into two constituencies. Tho decision of tho Chamber is virtually an adoption of the scrutin do liste. under wiiioh each elector votes for as many members as are allotted to his department. Tho present system, tho ecrutin d’arrondissement. is one of single member electorates.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 7
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107FRENCH POLITICS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 7
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