Sarkozy set for fresh victory in French general election
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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 President Nicolas Sarkozy was set Tuesday to unveil a new government line-up forced upon him after his centre-right party&#39;s worse than expected showing in parliamentary elections.
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France voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to give an overwhelming majority to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for his program of tax and labor reform.
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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right allies won a solid majority in Sunday's parliamentary election, but failed to secure a widely-expected landslide, television poll forecasts showed.
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President Nicolas Sarkozyâs center-right camp was on course to win a landslide victory after the first round of Franceâs legislative elections.
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For the first time in nearly three decades, French voters look set to return the outgoing majority to power in parliamentary elections, giving President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives a commanding lead in the first round.
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Nicolas Sarkozy hopes his courtship of America during a four-day trip may win him votes on the French right.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be made head of President Chirac's governing party.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the new leader of France&#39;s ruling conservative party, has carved out a stellar political career that he unabashedly sees as one day -- and sooner rather than later -- making him French president.
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Campaigning drew to a close Saturday for the second round of France&#39;s parliamentary election, which is expected to deliver an overwhelming majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ambitious programme of reform.
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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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Foreign Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says he will stand for the leadership of France's main governing party.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his new government in place and five years in power ahead of him, vowed Wednesday to carry out swiftly the &quot;daring&quot; reform programme that helped get him elected last month.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has told President Jacques Chirac that he will stand for the leadership of the main governing party, officials say.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy won a solid majority for political and economic reforms in parliamentary polls on Monday, but the defeat of a top minister in a late Socialist surge soured the right's celebrations.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s right wing party was headed for a landslide victory that would hand him a sweeping mandate to reform France, after the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.