15/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Le Monde of 15 June, the Chairman of the European Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, states that he had drawn President Chirac's attention to the risk involved in putting to the opinion of voters, in the referendum on the European Consitution, a 191-page document made up of 448 articles, 36 protocols and 50 declarations. The former president of the French Republic had told Jacques Chirac that the text was far too long - that it would antagonise voters. He believed it was enough to send them the part that was strictly speaking constituent - the first 15 pages and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and that, for the other parts (which are in fact texts already adopted), it was enough just to refer to them. “My suggestion was not taken up”, VGE remembers, recalling that President Chirac had answered that “I was told it was legally impossible! It might lead to a course of action that would then mean cancelling the referendum”.