sentences:  After a new legislative election in June 1946, the Christian-Democrat Georges Bidault assumed leadership of the cabinet.Despite de Gaulle's so-called discourse of Bayeux of June 16, 1946 in which he denounced the new institutions, the new draft was approved by the French people, with 53% of voters voting in favor (with 31% in abstention) in the October 13, 1946 referendum.This culminated in the establishment in the following year of the Fourth Republic, an arrangement in which executive power essentially resided in the hands of the President of the Council.