CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 5, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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~ ~~ 4. SYRIAN BY-ELECTIONS
~~ 5o SARAGAT SOCIALISTS REPORTED WITHDRAWING FROM
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~~ 6o GHANA PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION MAY VISIT MOSCOW
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4, SYRIAN BY-ELECTIONS
According to unofficial returns, leftist
candidates have won three out of four
contests in the Syrian parliamentary by-
elections held on 4-5 May, ThQ elections
were held to fill the posts of four con-
servative deputies convicted of conspir-
acy with Iraq.
In the important Damascus constituency,
leftistRiad Malki won over his conservative opponent Mustafa
Sibai, Moslem Brotherhood leader. At Homs -and at Suwayda,
in the Jebal Druze region, leftist candidates are reported to
have comfortable margins. The .fourth seat-,which. went. to the
rightist.carididate, is in the Hauran tribal area, where. ideology
played almost no role.
The turnout of voters was about the same
as in the 1954 parliamentary elections..The outcome apparently
resulted;fromthe leftists' domination of the overnment and
hence, of the voting machinery.
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5. SARAGAT SOCIALISTS REPORTED WITHDRAWING
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verthrow of
oalition govern-
reports on 5 May
gat has announced
that his Democratic Socialist Party will withdraw from the
cabineto The reports do not agree on how soon this move
might take place. Refusal by the 19 Democratic Socialist
deputies to support the government would erase Segni?s slim
majority in the 590-man lower house, reducing his assured
support to his own 265 Christian Democratic deputies and 14
Liberals.
Strong pressure within the .Democratic So-
cialist Party for withdrawal from the government has been
evident for some months, stemming partly from a general
.party belief that the Segni government is not radical enough
in its reform program, and partly from a belief on the part
of many party members that withdrawal would facilitate re-
union with the Nenni Socialistsa
The most likely countermove by the Chris-
tian Democrats would be the formation of a single-party gov-
ernment, relying on the left for parliamentary support on some
issues and on other occasions on the Liberals and most of the
40 Monarchist deputies. Too close an association with the
right9 however, would antagonize the reform-minded Chris-
tian Democratic left wing and might lead to its breaking away.
If it is decided to hold new national elections,
it is unlikel that the would take place before September.
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ment has followed press
that Vice Premier Sara
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Italian premier Segni4s c
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64 GHANA PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION MAY
VISIT MOSCOW
to a Soviet invitation. The permanent secretary of external
affairs says he will try to have a "sensible" delegation chosen
with no ministers included who could commit .the government.
The American embassy in Accra be-
lieves there is a distinct possibility
that a Ghana parliamentary delega-
tion will be sent to Moscow in response
A trip by a parliamentary delegation
to Moscow would probably be the beginning of increasing so-
cial, political and economic contacts between .Ghana and the
Soviet bloc. Both the British Foreign Office and the Amer-
ican charge at Accra believe that Ghana will exchange diplo-
matic representation with the USSR within a year.
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