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Sat 02 Feb 2009Giscard backs May date for Lisbon poll
IRELAND SHOULD hold a second Lisbon Treaty referendum in late April, or early May – and not October, the former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has said.
An October referendum – the Government’s preferred choice for now – would occur “at the moment when the new European Commission will be chosen for a five-year term.
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