Gallic Noes
Chirac toils to stem tide of 'no' voters in EU constitution poll - Newspaper Edition - Times Online
PRESIDENT CHIRAC embarks on a make-or-break attempt tomorrow to persuade voters to approve the European Union constitution after a poll yesterday showed the "no" majority increasing before the French referendum on May 29.
Of course there may be other ways for the Crook to win - all those ballot boxes from the territories for instance.. as
Michael Portillo said of a previous French vote:
"Within minutes of the ballot boxes being sealed Major received a call from Paris to tell him that the vote had been carried by 51% to 49%. That surprised me. In my experience of elections it had never been possible to know the outcome of such a close contest so quickly. To this day I harbour shameful doubts about how the French government could be so sure so soon."
