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  • Genocide Recognition Champion Anne Hidalgo To Become Paris Mayor

    GENOCIDE RECOGNITION CHAMPION ANNE HIDALGO TO BECOME PARIS MAYOR

    March 31, 2014 - 15:06 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Anne Hidalgo, the candidate of France's ruling
    Socialist Party, will be the first female mayor of Paris after winning
    municipal elections in the French capital on Sunday, March 31, exit
    polls indicated, according to Agence France-Presse.

    Hidalgo, 54, the number two to current mayor Bertrand Delanoe,
    claimed 54.5 percent of second round votes in the capital, comfortably
    beating her centre-right rival, former government minister Nathalie
    Kosciusko-Morizet (45.5 percent), the polls suggested.

    Earlier, Ms Hidalgo named Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide
    as a precondition for Ankara's accession to the EU.

    "The recognition will make Turkey stronger," she said.

    Ms Hidalgo further expressed support for adoption of the Genocide
    denial law, further referring to President Hollande's pledge to work
    out a legal instrument that won't meet the ban of the Constitutional
    Court.

    "Denial of tragic pages of history is what prevents building a new
    future," she said.

    Ms Hidalgo vowed to perpetuate the April 24 commemorative events
    if elected a mayor, with Paris Mayor's Office to extend financial
    support to the Genocide centennial events in 2015.

    On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed the bill making
    it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged
    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. However, the French Constitutional Council ruled the bill as
    anti-constitutional. In a statement the Council said the document
    represented an "unconstitutional breach of the practice of freedom
    of expression and communication

    Later, President Hollande pledged to redraft the law criminalizing
    the Armenian Genocide denial in France, stressing the need to ensure
    the legal framework to avoid censorship by the Constitutional Council.

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/177460/


    From: Baghdasarian
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