Many French see no need to vote in parliamentary second round
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The risk of abstention looms large in  Sunday&#39;s parliamentary election, with many French voters saying  President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s conservatives will win regardless  of their vote.
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French voters overseas cast the first ballots Saturday in a parliamentary election predicted to hand a resounding majority to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ambitious reform programme.
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French President Chirac's ruling party risks losing its outright majority in an indirect vote to the Senate.
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French voters gave his conservative party a majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, though it was narrower than expected.
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Portuguese voters were heading to the polls for a second referendum in less than a decade on the mainly Catholic country's abortion law, one of Europe's strictest, with surveys showing support for reform.
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France knew no parties and no religious controversy, only republicans and patriots. As in times of war, this otherwise highly divided nation, with its many social, ethnic and religious
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PARIS A resounding vote in favor of the European Union constitution by France&#39;s opposition Socialist Party was welcomed Thursday across a Continent that faces a string of national referendums on the treaty next year.
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GENEVA  - Dashing the chance for almost 200,000 youngsters to get citizenship easily, voters in this Alpine country rejected two government proposals to loosen tough naturalization rules in a referendum Sunday.
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The French are heading back to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday, less than a month after electing a new president.
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In the second round of the country&#39;s legislative elections on Sunday, some 35 million registered voters are choosing parliamentary deputies in the 467 constituencies where there was no winner in the first round a week ago.
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An immigration bill, expected to pass, requires knowledge of French and proof of support.
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France&#39;s pro-European Socialists are jubilant after a party referendum on the EU constitution produced a solid majority for the treaty, boosting its chances to win approval in a national plebiscite next year.
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In a thinly-veiled attack against President Nicolas Sarkozy, a group of leading French politicians have signed an appeal opposing the creation of an "elective monarchy" in France.
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Low turnout has marked the second round of parliamentary elections in Lithuania.
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A majority of the French public is against Turkey's entry into the European Union though most are also prepared to imagine it joining at some future date, according to an opinion poll released Tuesday.
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PARIS, June 10 -- French voters reinforced President Nicolas Sarkozy's mandate for major reform of the nation's moribund economy and government, giving his ruling party and its allies an estimated 46 percent of the vote in Sunday's first round of parliamentary elections, according to nearly complete...
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French Polynesians are voting to end a political deadlock after a controversial poll last year.