Sarkozy party heads for landslide in French parliament
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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.
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Popular former French finance and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken over the leadership of his country&#39;s conservative ruling party in a move that could change the face of French politics.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, a flamboyant rival to President Chirac, is crowned as head of France's governing party.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, France's interior minister, formally announced his bid to represent his centre-right party in presidential elections next year, in an interview.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered a seven-point drop in his approval ratings, mainly because of worries over the economy, according to an opinion poll published in the newspaper Le Parisien on Sunday.
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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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French conservatives looked set to sweep parliamentary elections on Sunday and hand President Nicolas Sarkozy the strong mandate he had sought for the wide-ranging reforms he says are needed to revive the economy.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval rating has slid to its lowest point in his nine months in office, a poll commissioned by l'Express magazine showed on Tuesday, prompting the weekly to speak of a "toboggan effect".
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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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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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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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&#39;s celebrations.
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French President Jacques Chirac's ruling UMP party could lose its outright majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, in partial elections being held.
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France's Socialists, reeling at the prospect of a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections, on Monday called on voters to prevent a landslide victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy in next week's second round ballot.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy won a  solid parliamentary majority for political and economic reforms  on Monday but voters soured the right&#39;s celebrations by not  giving a forecast landslide and rejecting a top minister.