FRANCE: FORMER PRIME MINISTER BIDAULT IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNING IN PARIS

Record ID: 347423

  • Title: FRANCE: FORMER PRIME MINISTER BIDAULT IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNING IN PARIS
  • Date: 22nd June 1968
  • Summary: AUDIENCE SPEAKING IN FRENCH -- SOUND ON FILM. Initials DHC/V/MR/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th July 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA85TAJ9924CIW4FC41G6E5EOUM
  • Story Text: FORMER FRENCH PRIME MINISTER GEORGES BIDAULT, IN VOLUNTARY EXILE FROM FRANCE FOR SIX YEARS, HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING HARD IN THE FORTHCOMING FRENCH GENERAL ELECTIONS. M. BIDAULT, AND ARCH ANTI-GAULLIST, IS WAGING HIS CAMPAIGN WITH THE SUPPORT OF HIS OWN RECENTLY FORMED FOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.

    CAMPAIGNING IN THE ELECTION FOR A NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ENDS AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, AND THE GAULLISTS ARE CONFIDENT THAT THEY WILL IMPROVE THEIR STANDING IN THE HOUSE. PUBLIC OPINION POLLS SUPPORT THEM.

    THE PRELIMINARIES SO FAR HAVE AROUSED RELATIVELY LITTLE ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE ELECTORATE, ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTED CASES OF VIOLENCE.

    M. BIDAULT RETURNED TO FRANCE A FORTNIGHT AGO, AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF PLOTTING AGAINST THE STATE.

    HE ADDRESSED A GATHERING IN THE PLACE DU CARDINALE AMETEE LAST NIGHT AND SPOKE IN FRENCH.
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