The new president of the French Republic

On the 13th of this month the National Assembly (a joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate) elected the newly chosen President of the Senate, Mr. Doumergue, as the new President of France.

Of the two competing candidates, Painlevé and Doumergue, the first, as the more radical representative of the same Left, gathered only 309 votes from the Left. For the second, as the less "unpleasant" one and one with greater political experience, the Right voted as well, and so did the whole Senate, as for its own president, and he received 515 votes.