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DATE: TUESDAY, March 17, 1992                   TAG: 9203170080
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO                                LENGTH: Short

CONGO VOTERS APPROVE MULTIPARTY CONSTITUTION

Voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution that formally ends one-party rule in this former Marxist Central African nation, the Interior Minister announced Monday.

Alexis Gabou said 90 percent of the Congo's 1 million voters cast ballots Sunday, and more than 80 percent of them approved the new constitution.

The referendum clears the way for national assembly elections in April and a presidential election in June. They will be the first multiparty national elections since independence from France in 1960.

- Associated Press 


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