Majority of French in favour of Constitution

Over half of the French people would vote "yes" in the forthcoming referendum on the Constitution, according to a new poll to be published on Thursday (16 September) in Le Point newspaper.

The survey showed 51 percent of voters "are tending towards a 'yes' vote" with 34 percent having the opposite opinion.

But a greater proportion of French voters support the stance of the deputy leader of the Socialist Party Laurent Fabius, who has attached conditions to his support of the Cons...