The elections to the Greek Chamber of Deputies and for a third of the membership of the Senate, which were to have taken place in September, have now been fixed for the first fortnight in May.
The electoral law now in force has not been amended, and the separate Electoral College for the Jews of Salonica, to which the Jewish population has constantly objected, will therefore be maintained during these elections. As in the past, the Jews of Salonica will be entitled to elect one representative to the Senate and two to the Chamber.
At the last elections in August 1928, the Jewish Deputies elected were M. Bessantchi and the late M. David Matalon, both Zionists and members of the Executive Committee of the Zionist Federation of Greece. In the senatorial elections, which took place in April 1929, M. Asher Mallah, President of the Zionist Federation of Greece, was elected a Senator.
There will be three lists of Jewish candidates in Salonica, a Government candidate (Venizelist), an anti-Venizelist, and a Communist.
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