The World - News from March 24, 1986
Conservatives strengthened their slim majority in the French National Assembly with the reelection of Benjamin Brial, the representative from the South Pacific territorial islands of Wallis and Futuna. Brial is a member of Premier Jacques Chirac’s neo-Gaullist party, the Rally for the Republic. A coalition of conservative parties now holds 291 seats in the 577-seat assembly as a result of March 16 parliamentary elections, two more than needed for a majority. One seat remains undecided, that from St. Pierre and Miquelon, islands off eastern Canada.
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