Presidential race heats up in France
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PARIS -- Nicolas Sarkozy and S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, the front-runners in France's presidential race, rushed to beef up their campaigns yesterday against the rise of a centrist candidate.
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading presidential candidate for France's ruling conservative party, swept through Washington yesterday, delivering an unabashedly pro-American speech and landing meetings with President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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A story of love and rivalry  is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with  revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.
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After months of grand rhetoric,  endless fundraising and heavy campaigning, the 2008  presidential race kicks into even higher gear this week at the  start of a four-month sprint to the first votes.
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Whether because of his public love life or his economic policies, French voters seem to be souring on their new president
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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In the course of three short months, the political system has come full circle: a presidential campaign, an inauguration, a State of the Union address and now this &#151; another presidential race.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as something new for France and both have seasoned advertising executives to help them do it.
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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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Lobbying for the International Monetary Fund's top job intensifies as France seeks support for its candidate.
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France's Socialists formally launched Segolene Royal's candidacy yesterday to compete in a fierce presidential race with high stakes for her and her party: Royal wants to be France's first female president and ...Comment
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race, with a centrist former education minister just a few points behind the two established candidates. But that's only half the story. Six weeks before balloting begins, at least 40 percent of those asked said they still don't know whom they want as president, leaving the race wide open.
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The candidates are starting earlier than ever, but that's not all that is making this Presidential race different
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Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said he will run in France's presidential elections next year, according to comments posted Wednesday on the Web site of the newspaper Liberation.
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Less than a month into office, Nicolas  Sarkozy is being dubbed the &quot;hyper president&quot; for an energetic  governing style that appears set to win him a huge  parliamentary majority in June legislative elections.
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The French head back to the polls Sunday in a parliamentary election tipped to give right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy the majority he needs to push through an ambitious reform programme.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.