French right looks to parliament sweep
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The Communists may have to sell their headquarters to stay afloat. The Socialists are in denial about their decay. Paris' lefty Left Bank is plastered with posters for the ruling right.
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France's Socialists want an alliance with centrists to prevent a crushing poll victory for the ruling UMP.
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French centre-right leader Nicolas Sarkozy wants far right and far left leaders to run in the presidential race.
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French conservatives were headed for a parliamentary landslide after a first round legislative election on Sunday, bolstering President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to implement wide-ranging reforms.
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.Comment
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Right-wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set to score a crushing victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday, despite a row over his plans for tax hikes that appeared to have rallied the left.
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Proposals in France to tighten entry conditions for immigrants' relatives are to be debated by MPs.
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France&#39;s center-right cabinet discussed  plans to reform ailing universities on Wednesday and to curb  some strike rights, a move that could put President Nicolas  Sarkozy on collision course with trade unions.
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French-speaking politicians see a better chance of claiming the top job in the country's upcoming election, but the favorites remain Flemish
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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Right wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy, despite an unexpected narrowing in his party&#39;s parliamentary majority, plans to move fast to overhaul the economy, with the deficit-ridden health care system a primary target.
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Voting began in the first round of France's legislative election on Sunday with President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party expected to strengthen its hold on power.
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PARIS -- By tomorrow, President Nicolas Sarkozy will probably be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, Parliament, and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking to bolster his mandate for pervasive reforms to energize France's sluggish economy in legislative elections that opened Sunday.The vote is crucial to Sarkozy's reform program because the composition of his Cabinet and its ability to push through legislation is tied to the number of seats the mainstream right has in the 577-seat National Assembly.The balloting Sunday is the first round. In France's complex electoral calculus, only candidates who win a majority of votes Sunday land a seat immediately. In races with no majority winner, any hopeful who gets more than 12.5 percent will qualify for a decisive second round June 17. Read more
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A nationalist party riding an anti-immigrant wave on the right and the Green Party appealing to environmental concerns on the left were poised to gain strength in parliamentary elections Sunday.
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French Socialists are to campaign for the EU constitution - a move that should avert a ânonâ in a national referendum set for 2005.