- Title: FRANCE: CABINET MEETING/POHER TAKES OFFICE/FRANC UNDER PRESSURE
- Date: 28th April 1969
- Summary: MALRUX LEAVING CABINET MEETING; FAURE, LE THEULE, DEBRE LEAVING, POHER ARRIVING AT ELEYSEE; PARIS BOURSE. Initials GEP/VS/CT/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 13th May 1969 13:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVABPQ1XYP4AY6BV2O1W4WKVU86
- Story Text: M. ALAIN POHER, ACTING PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, DROVE TO THE ELYSEE PALACE TODAY (MONDAY) TO HOLD HIS FIRST OFFICIAL MEETINGS WITH MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, AMID SPECULATIONS THAT THERE WOULD BE FURTHER CABINET RESIGNATIONS.
THE FRENCH CABINET MET THIS MORNING, AN HOUR BEFORE GENERAL DE GAULLE'S FORMAL RESIGNATION AS PRESIDENT AT NOON. ONE MEMBER OF THE CABINET HAS ALREADY RESIGNED, BUT AFTER THE MEETING THE INFORMATION MINISTER M. JOEL LE THEULE DENIED RUMOURS THAT M. ANDRE MALRAUX THE MINISTER OF CULTURE WOULD ALSO RESIGN. M. MALRAUX IS ONE OF GENERAL DE GAULLE'S MOST FERVENT FOLLOWERS.
M. LE THEULE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT ITS FUNCTIONS AS LAID DOWN BY THE CONSTITUTION.
M. POHER WAS GREETED ON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE BY M. BERNARD TRICOT THE ELYSEE SECRETARY-GENERAL. A 20 MAN PLATOON OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD SALUTED THE ACTING PRESIDENT WHILE TWO BULGERS SOUNDED A FANFARE.
ONE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE OF THE UNCERTAIN POLITICAL SITUATION PROVOKED BY THE CHANGE OF PRESIDENT WAS WHAT ON THE PARIS EXCHANGE MARKET THE FRANC FELL TO ITS LOWEST MARKET VALUE SINCE THE NOVEMBER MONETARY CRISIS AND GOLD PRICES SOARED TO RECORD LEVELS.
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