FRANCE: CENTRE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADER LECANUET UNLIKELY TO STAND IN COMING ELECTIONS

Record ID: 496385

  • Title: FRANCE: CENTRE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADER LECANUET UNLIKELY TO STAND IN COMING ELECTIONS
  • Date: 30th January 1967
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT. HOTEL 0.04 2. SCU DITTO 0.08 3. SV INT. DEMOCRATS ENTER FOR CONFERENCE 0.17 4. LV DEMOCRATS AT CONFERENCE TABLE 0.18 5. SCU AUDIENCE APPLAUD 0.21 6. CU SENATOR LECANUET SPEAKS (SOF) 1.02 7. GV AUDIENCE LISTENS 1.05 8. CU LECANUET CONTINUES 1.40 9. SV PAN. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 1.43 10. CU FRENCH DEMOCRAT 1.46 Initials RM/V/CT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAF1JQWDMKUK9MM72JE97HYVVIL
  • Story Text: THE LEADER OF THE FRENCH CENTRE DEMOCRAT PARTY, A RIGHT-OF-CENTRE GROUP, SENATOR JEAN LECANUET, ANNOUNCED IN PARIS YESTERDAY (SUNDAY) THAT IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT HE WOULD STAND AS A CANDIDATE IN THE MARCH GENERAL ELECTIONS. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT STAND FOR RE-ELECTION IN HIS PRESENT CONSTITUENCY, ROUEN, AND WOULD ONLY STAND IN ANOTHER CONSTITUENCY IF IT WERE PROVEN THAT IT WAS INDISPENSIBLE FOR HIM TO REMAIN A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

    SENATOR LECANUET HOPES HIS PARTY WILL WIN ENOUGH SEATS IN THE NEXT ASSEMBLY TO FORM A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT WITH THE GAULLISTS AND THUS OBLIGE PRESIDENT DE GAULLE TO BE; MORE CONCILIATORY TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES AND MORE ENTHUISIASTIC ABOUT THE UNION OF EUROPE. THE SENATOR BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE DURING THE 1965 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, BUT HIS LATEST MOVE IS SEEN AS WEAKENING HIS OWN PRESTIGE AS LEADER OF THE CENTRE DEMOCRATS.
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