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    FRENCH SENATORS LACK VOTES TO PROTEST GENOCIDE BILL

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    January 26, 2012 - 14:19 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - French Senators have only 48 hours left to protest
    the bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial at Constitutional Court.

    By now, the number of French MPs protesting the bill has reached 35,
    with Turkish-French friendship group chair, the Union for a Popular
    Movement (UPM) member Michel Diefenbacher, other UPM members and some
    oppositional Socialists among the malcontent.

    With 60 parliamentarians necessary to appeal to the Constitutional
    Court, experts are skeptical the necessary number of supporters will
    be reached.

    On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
    Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. To be
    signed into law within 14 days, the bill will impose a 45,000 euro
    fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime
    against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.

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