Royal launches French presidential bid as rival Sarkozy struggles
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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...
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Frank-talking Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed he will seek the French presidency, pledging to recharge the country by breaking with coveted job protections and better integrating disillusioned minorities.
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French socialist Segolene Royal officially entered the race to be the country's next president, announcing that she is a candidate for her party's nomination.
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Campaigning drew to a close Friday for the first round of French parliamentary elections, in which right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to win a resounding majority for his ambitious programme of reforms.
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Segolene Royal took her campaign to become France's first female president into the tumultuous Lebanese capital Thursday, launching a Middle East trip seen as a test of her foreign policy savvy.
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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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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Centrist Francois Bayrou has said he would stand for French president to offer an alternative to favourites Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's election.
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She brought excitement to French politics with her bid to become the nation's first woman president, but Segolene Royal now appears on the verge of seeing her campaign implode.Comment
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Can S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal's feminine campaigning style get her elected to France's top job?
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked his lawyer to take legal action against low-cost airline Ryanair for using a photo of him and girlfriend Carla Bruni in an advertisement, a spokesman said Monday.
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VITROLLES, France, Sept. 29 -- Segolene Royal confirmed  Friday that she wants to become the Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, officially entering a race against a string of party heavyweights.
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PARIS -- French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal, attempting to rejuvenate a faltering bid to become the country's first female president, announced a 100-point platform yesterday that includes sending juvenile delinquents to military-style boot camps and providing free contraceptives to women younger than 25. Royal billed the two-hour speech, delivered before an estimated 15,000 party members but aimed at a ...
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Royal ... we must restore the party hierarchy PARIS: French presidential candidate Segolene Royal said yesterday that she plans to shake up her campaign team as she battled to reverse an alarming slide in the ...Comment
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PARIS -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed yesterday that he will run for president next spring and will quit the government if his ruling center-right party backs his candidacy at a Jan. 14 meeting. Sarkozy could face Socialist Segolene Royal, who is seeking to become the first woman to lead France. But a recent surge by veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie ...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend Carla Bruni are taking budget airline Ryanair to court over a photo of the couple featured in a recent ad campaign, their lawyer said Wednesday.