The World - News from March 23, 1986

Premier Jacques Chirac will call a vote of confidence at the opening session of France’s newly elected Parliament, a government spokesman said. Chirac, named to head a new conservative government last week, will call for the vote--the first test of unity among the coalition of rightist and center-right parties--when the next session of the National Assembly opens April 2, the spokesman said. It will be Chirac’s first appearance in Parliament since the coalition won a narrow victory in legislative elections March 16.