sentences:  It obtained 38 seats in the November 1946 legislative elections.The party was presided over by Michel Clemenceau (son of Georges), who obtained 60 votes out of 883 during the 1947 presidential election — under the Fourth Republic, the President was elected by members of the two chambers of Parliament, not by universal suffrage.The PRL then obtained 11 Senators in the indirect elections for the Council of the Republic of 1948.