"The French vote and Turkey
Monday, May 30, 2005
TDN editorial by Yusuf KANLI
Some 42 million French voters went to the polling booths Sunday and cast their votes for or against the new European charter.
Last-minute opinion polls all indicated that there would be around a 60 percent �no� vote and that the first-ever constitution of the old continent would receive its first major, and perhaps deadly, blow. Exit polls were to become available at 20:00 GMT, well past our deadline to go to print. There were optimistic assessments Sunday that some 9 percent of undecided in the opinion polls could stage a �surprise� in the voting and help prevent the document, which aims to simplify decision-making in the expanded 25-member bloc, go down the drain. "
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