FRENCH ELECTIONS
GOVERNMENT BLOC LEADING COMMUNISTS OUT OF IT NZPA—Copyright PARIS Mar. 27. Polling was . conducted to-dav throughout provincial France in the second ballot for the departmental council elections, which began last Sunday. The vote will test public opinion on the “Third Force Government” of Dr Henri Queuille. According to Government figures, Third Force parties last week won 520 seats, the Rightists 216, the de Gaullists 170. and the Communists 17. The de Gaullists claim that 275 successful candidates were de Gaullists. and the Communists said that they polled 150,000 more votes last Sunday than they did in the 1945 election. Early returns show the Government parties to be well ahead and the Communists hopelessly out of the running. General de Gaulle is doing well individually, but is heavily outmatched by the Government bloc.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27042, 29 March 1949, Page 5
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