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Paris/Brussels: The French President, Jacques Chirac, on Friday called a snap referendum on the European Union Constitution amid increasing concern that France's voters will turn against the proposal and effectively kill the treaty. Setting May 29 as polling day — the earliest feasible date — the President's Elysee palace denied claims that his hand had been forced. But opinion polls have shown support for the treaty dwindling. A rejection in France, traditionally in the forefront of European integration, could deal a terminal blow to the constitution. As the only large founding member state to be holding a referendum, whose former President Valerie Giscard d'Estaing drew up the Constitution, France wields an effective veto. The leaders of the ruling Centre-Right UMP party and Opposition Socialists, whom Mr. Chirac consulted this week, urged him to allow plenty of time for the Yes camp to convince France's voters.
— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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