Det er ud fra disse betragtninger, at chefen for det franske diplomati, Hubert Védrine, ikke tøvede med at gå så langt som til at forklare, at disse valg på en vis måde var lovlige, da de byggede på en forfatning.
It was on the basis of such considerations that Hubert Védrine, the head of the French diplomatic service, actually went so far as to explain that from a certain point of view these elections were legal because they were founded on a constitution.