Jules Moch, Socialist Cabinet Secretary and cousin of Premier Leon Blum, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies today in the final ballot of the Sete by-election, the Havas News Agency reported.
He gained 8,554 votes compared with 2,312 for his only opponent Henri Vuillemin, candidate of the Fascist-inclined French People’s Party of Jacques Doriot.
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