FRENCH CONSTITUTION
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People Oppose Change • PREMIER MAY RESIGN ■
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Reeeived Tuesday, 11.30 a.m. PARIS, May 6. The Ministry of the • Interior announced that voting on the constitution issue -is 10,455,708 noes and y, 234,098 aye'sr Votes -are still to co me from Prance's overseas possessions, but they cannot affect the •resuit. Fifty-three per cent. of the voters voted against the change and forty-seven per cent. voted for it J Tw'enty per cent. of the electorate j did not vote. The political parties will meet tomorrow and. it is probable that the Prime Minister, M. Gouin, will ask j the President of the Assembly, M. Auriol, to convene the Assembly on Tnursday, when M. Gouin intends to hand in his • resignation. It is jrooable that M. Gouin will be asked to remain in power with his Ministers until the elections.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1946, Page 5
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