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 French 967,000 Word Poll Question To Break All Records
By Lolo Laroche
This Sunday the French will go to the polls to vote on the proposed European constitution.
The question, to be posed to electors, includes, in the name of democracy, every word from the new proposed European constitution.
The document, the result of complex legal wrangling between the 25 EC countries, comprises 500 pages of A4.
In order to assure a democratic vote, officials will insist that every French citizen wishing to vote “Yes” read every word of the new constitution beforehand.
Voters wishing to reject the constitution will however be allowed to vote “No” simply on the grounds that they don’t have the time or the desire to plough through it.
Given the choice of reading 500 pages of EC legalese or rejecting the constitution in the hope that something simpler and more democratic will be concocted next time round, analysts predict a clear majority for the “No” vote.
This hasn’t stopped the partisans of the Yes camp attempting to brand their opponents as anti-European, and this despite the fact that a Yes vote by the French will undoubtedly fracture the EC into a two-speed state, creating a rift between countries accepting the constitution and those such as Denmark, Great Britain, and the Netherlands where a yes vote for the unreadable, incomprehensible, un-modifiable document is completely unthinkable.
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