All Algerians including women were registered for the first time on electoral rolls to participate in a referendum to be held on the new constitution

De Gaulle immediately appointed a committee to draft a new constitution for France's Fifth Republic, which would be declared early the next year, with which Algeria would be associated but of which it would not form an integral part. All Algerians, including women, were registered for the first time on electoral rolls to participate in a referendum to be held on the new constitution in September 1958.