GREECE: GREEK PEOPLE VOTE "YES" ON NEW CONSTITUTION.

Record ID: 328525

  • Title: GREECE: GREEK PEOPLE VOTE "YES" ON NEW CONSTITUTION.
  • Date: 29th September 1968
  • Summary: VOTERS IN POLLING STATIONS IN ATHENS AND SUBURBS. Initials DHC/VS/PN/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th October 1968 13:00
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  • Location: ATHENS, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Reuters ID: LVA2VH88ZLLAZU129BI2FGJN8HUQ
  • Story Text: THE GREEK PEOPLE EXPRESSED UNANIMOUS APPROVAL OF THEIR COUNTRY'S NEW CONSTITUTION IN A REFERENDUM CONDUCTED TODAY (SUNDAY). ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL SOURCES, MORE THAN 90 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION VOTED IN FAVOUR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, DRAWN UP BY THE RULING MILITARY REGIME.

    VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS AT ABOUT 8,000 STATIONS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT GREECE AND THE ISLANDS.

    PRIME MINISTER GEORGE PAPADOPOLOUS HAS TOLD THE NATION THE NEW CONSTITUTION WILL MAKE GREECE A MODEL DEMOCRACY. TONIGHT DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER STYLIANOS PATTAKOS ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING "THE GREEK PEOPLE TODAY EXERCISED THEIR SOVEREIGN RIGHT IN A FREE, UNIMPEDED AND ABSOLUTELY UNINFLUENCED WAY." THE PRESENT REGIME HAS BEEN IN POWER SINCE A COUP 17 MONTHS AGO.
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