FRENCH ELECTIONS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10302, 11 January 1927, Page 5

FRENCH ELECTIONS

SENATORIAL CONTESTS M.M. MILLER AND AND DESERVES DEFEATED. JHE IRONY OF FATE 31. caiILAM MAY RULE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) i' PARIS, Jan. 9.

There is very keen interest ifi the senatorial elections to-day. Senators hold office for nine years, one-tliird retiring every three years. This year there are also two by-elections; therefore 107 senators will be elected from 32 departments. MM. Caillaux, *-*3lillerand. Barthou, Steeg, Clementee, and De Selves, President of the Senate, are among those seeking re-election, while the deputies who are candidates include 3131. Raoul, Perei, and 3larcel Cachin. The dominant issued of the election is the struggle of members of the Left to increase their representation bv a few seats to give them an absolute majority.—A.N.Z.C.A. U 7 o mu,,’Uha /eßcogf,,fl MvxM6o (Received Jan. 10, 7.5 p.m.) PARIS. Jan. 10.

Sixty-three Senators already elected include 31.31. Barthou, Peret, Caillaux, and Clementel. The State of the parties, is as follows: Conservatives 2, Republicans 17, Left Republicans 14. Independent Radicals 4, Socialist Radicals 20 Republican Socialist 1. Socialists 3. 31. Millerand was defeated on the second ballot. The election statist! js show that (ho cartel of the Left gained nine seats and the Radical Socialists lost three, but the Socialists gained eight, the Republican Socialists two, and the Communists two.

Out of 208 senators 67 were elected for the first time, and 41 reelected. 31. Deselves was defeated. Before the election seats where old members were defeated were occupied as follows: Conservatives 2, Republicans 17, Left Republicans 27. Independent Radicals 10. Socialist Radicals and Republican Socialists 50, Socialists 2. These are now as the result of the election oe'■upied as follows: Conservatives 3, Republicans 19, Left Republicans 19, Independent Radicals 9, Socialist Radicals 44, Republican Socialists 2, Socialists 10, Communists 2. The most sensational results were recorded in Paris where no Socialist hitherto had been elected.

The success of the Opposition was due to the Communists, who voted for Radical Socialists instead of their own candidates. The Socialists’ success means the revival of the cartel between the Radical Socialists and the Socialists which triumphed in the Chamber elections of 1924. The probable result will be that M. Poincare’s majority will be dangerously reduced. It is expected that 31. Caillaux will be asked to succeed 31. Deselves in the presidency of the Senate. He will thus become the head of the Court of Justice, which sentenced him a decade ago.