[2] The draft Constitution, approved by the Constituent Assembly on 19 April 1946, was supported by the Communists and the Socialists.

Moderates, Radicals, and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) campaigned against the referendum.

The "No" coalition warned the voters against the danger of a "dictatorship" of an Assembly dominated by the Marxists, which could question the existence of private property.

In the "Yes" coalition, the SFIO refused the Communist proposition of a common campaign.

This second draft was submitted to the French people in the referendum of 13 October 1946 and was approved, resulting in the enactment of the Constitution of the French Fourth Republic, signed into law by the President of the Provisional Government on 27 October 1946.