The 1948 Algerian Assembly elections were systematically rigged by the French administration.
Evidence
In the municipal elections of 1947 sweeping victories by Messali’s followers alarmed the pied noir leaders. This could not be permitted on a national level. Consequently, when, in 1948, elections for the new Algerian Assembly took place as required by the 1947 statute, they turned out to be a masterpiece of rigging. There was widespread evidence of “stuffing” of election boxes by “loyal” caids or local officials; in some villages registration cards were never issued; in others heavily armed police (sometimes supported by tanks) assumed a menacing presence, and at Dechyma, where the populace refused to vote, the gardes mobiles opened fire, killing seven; nationalist election meetings were broken up and numerous arrests made. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 213
Categorization
- XREF: The rigged-election pattern connects to France’s practice in other colonial settings and to the reader’s interest in how the revolution was fought back. — connects to: France rigged the 1948 Algerian Assembly elections by stuffing ballot boxes; Electoral fraud destroyed Muslim trust in all future French reform offers; France rigged the 1948 Algerian elections by fraud and violence. (+4 more)
Related
- France rigged the 1948 Algerian Assembly elections by stuffing ballot boxes (similarity 0.96)
- France rigged the 1948 Algerian elections by fraud and violence. (similarity 0.95)
- The 1951 Algerian elections were rigged even more blatantly than those of 1948. (similarity 0.91)
- French parliamentary deputies themselves documented egregious vote-stuffing in Algeria. (similarity 0.90)
- Electoral fraud destroyed Muslim trust in all future French reform offers (similarity 0.88)
- Electoral fraud destroyed Muslim trust in French promises of free elections. (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- The 1951 Algerian elections were rigged even more blatantly than those of 1948.
#expands(0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 218 - French parliamentary deputies themselves documented egregious vote-stuffing in Algeria.
#corroborates(0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 213 - France’s 1947 statute for Algeria collapsed into compromise and left Muslim deputies abstaining
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