A new survey shows nearly 75 percent of French people want the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s parliament to vote on any potential military intervention in Syria.\n<\/p>\n
According to the CSA poll published on Tuesday, 74 percent of the respondents were in favor of a parliamentary vote before their country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s involvement in a possible military action.\n<\/p>\n
Of the 74 percent of people who said they were in favor of a vote, 42 percent said they were “firmly for” a vote, while 32 percent would “prefer” a vote.\n<\/p>\n
A total of 953 adults were interviewed for the poll.\n<\/p>\n
France and the United States have called for military action against Syria over accusations that the Syrian government was behind the recent chemical attack near the capital, Damascus.\n<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with the daily Le Monde, French President Francois Hollande said that he stands firm behind a \u00c5\u201cpunitive\u201d strike on Syria despite a delay in a military action by the UK after a vote in parliament.\n<\/p>\n
The French president is constitutionally able to order military action without approval from the parliament. However, some lawmakers urged Hollande to put the issue to a vote, as the US Congress is expected to vote on the military action against Syria.\n<\/p>\n
French lawmakers will meet in an extraordinary session on Wednesday to discuss the issue, but Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has ruled out a vote.\n<\/p>\n
On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka, and Jobar.\n<\/p>\n
A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus categorically rejected having had any role in the chemical attack.\n<\/p>\n
The Syrian government announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.\n<\/p>\n
On August 29, the British parliament voted against participation by Britain, the United States\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 closest ally, in any potential military intervention in Syria. While the British government had primarily sought a second vote in the parliament as well, it ruled out any such vote on September 2, saying that the parliament \u00c5\u201chas spoken,\u201d and that the government \u00c5\u201chas absolutely no plans to go back to parliament.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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