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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, December 13, 1953
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PARIS — Right-wing ele
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de Gaulle crushed France’s com
munists into near oblivion as a
parliamentary force and gained
overwhelming control of the
country’s new National Assem
bly.
Results of nationwide run-off
elections went. beyond all ex
pectations as close to 20 million
French voters trudged once
again to the polls to cast their
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final ballots for the Fifth Re
public’s first Parliament.
Sweeping aside the old "sys
tem” largely held responsible
for bringing the nation to the
brink of civil war last May, they
gave the Union for the New Re
public party a record 188 seats
and the largest majority enjoy
ed by a single party in modern
French parliamentary history.
Formed recently by Informa
tion Minister Jacques Soustelle,
who played a prominent role in
the uprising which brought Gen.
de Gaulle to power, the UNR is
considered as the most “Gaul-
list” party of the near dozen
which claimed full support for
the French Premier.
Its victory went well beyond
unofficial estimates based on the
first round of elections held a
week earlier, when 150 seats
were expected to go to the UNR
in the final ballot.
Second largest winner was the
conservative Independent party
which collected 132 seats, a gain
of 24 over its representation in
the previous National Assembly.
Christian Democrats of the
Popular Republican Movement
(MRP) registered a loss of 14
seats, collecting a total of 57.
Equally hard hit was the Radi
cal party, which toppled from
its former representation of 72
to 35 seats.
But the most spectacular loss
es were registered by the Com
munist and Socialist parties,
which pitted their strength
against one another and lost out
to right-wing candidates under
the majority electoral system
employed for the first time in
22 years.
In previous post-war elections
political parties have been rep
resented in the National Assem
bly in proportions to their
shares of the popular vote. This
year, however, seats were given
to candidates who obtained an
absolute majority in the first
round—39 were elected this way
—or bv a simple majority in the
second and final poll.
The Socialists, who obtained
15.4 per cent of the total popular
vote, collected 40 seats instead
of the 92 they previously held.
More crushing even was the
defeat handed the Communist
party. While claiming 20 per cent
of the popular vote, it managed
to preserve only 10 of the 144
seats it occupied in the last Na
tional Assembly.
The notorious "Red Belt”
comprising workers, districts
surrounding Paris was torn to
shreds as the communists lost 13
of the 18 seats they obtained in
former years.
The most resounding losses oc
curred in the poorer districts of
Montreuil and Le Chapelle,
where prominent Communist
party leaders Jacques Duclos
and Jeanette Vermersch were
defeated. Party boss Maurice
Thorez was elected in his
stronghold at Irvy by a scant
majority of three per cent of
the votes.
The Gaullist tidal wave oust
ed in wholesale fashion most of
the prominent figures of the
Fourth Republic, including five
former Premiers: Socialist Paul
Ramadier, Radicals Pierre Men-
des-France. Edgar Faure and
Edouard Daladier, as well as
Independent Joseph Laniel.
Survivors of the landslide in
cluded former Premiers Robert
Schuman, Pierre Pflimlin and
Georges Bidault, all three vet
eran leaders of the Catholic-
oriented MRP; Independent
leaders Antoine Pinay and Paul
Reynaud; Socialist Guy Mollet,
and Felix Gaillard and Andre
Marie, of the Radical party.
Also elected or re-elected
were three ecclesiastics: Father
Felix Kir, (Independent), Mayor
of Dijon and long-time promi
nent figure in French politics
who will resume his post as
dean of the National Assembly;
Father Viallet, who ran on a
Gaullist ticket; and newcomer
Father Laudrin who was elected
in Brittany under the MRP ban
ner.
On the whole the elections
gave the new National Assem
bly a composition which elimi
nates the threat of a policy hos
tile to religious freedoms.
Traditionally anti - clerical
groups such as the communists
and the socialists have either
been virtually wiped out or
stand considerably weakened.
The lone surviving leader of
the latter faction, Guy Mollet,
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