French Socialist candidate pledges to bring back genocide bill

France’s Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande pledged to bring back the government-backed law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, after that country’s Constitutional Council controversially deemed a similar bill unconstitutional, Asbarez reported, citing the Anatolia news agency.

Hollande promised to reopen the debate if he becomes the next president.

“It is impossible to prepare a new draft due to the approaching end of the legal year,” Hollande said.

“But I will bring it up again, and try to live up to my promises.”

France’s Constitutional Council on Tuesday court’s deemed the bill passed by the French Senate on Jan. 23 unconstitutional.

Sarkozy has already demanded a new draft for the law.  Read more... (144 words)

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