FRENCH POLITICS
GOVERNMENT UNEASY OBSTRUCTION METHODS IN CHAMBER ELECTORAL REFORM CAUSES BITTERNESS (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, July 9. The Times’ Paris correspondent reports 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 debates in 1926. A fight is raging around the proposal for the single member constituency 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 the discussion was resumed similar tactics were adopted in the afternoon, resulting in the Government apparently losing its force. M. Poincare will risk losing the support of the Radicals if he agree to the Conservative demand to scrap the single member constituency, and vice versa he will lose the Conservative vote. In either case the coalition is in a most precarious position. —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20226, 11 July 1927, Page 5
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