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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Conservatives are expected to win a commanding majority in legislative elections, giving the new President a free hand to transform France
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Nicolas Sarkozy's party says it will press ahead with reforms, despite falling short of the landslide it predicted in parliamentary elections. Did you vote?
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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to revive France's economy and its identity stand their first test on Sunday in parliamentary elections, with voters widely expected to give allies of their new conservative leader a mandate for change.
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The French are heading back to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday, less than a month after electing a new president.
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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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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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The French government is preparing to establish a "new alliance" with the United States after next week's election, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s rightwing party was headed for a landslide victory in Sunday&#39;s parliamentary elections that will give him free rein to push through his bold reform programme.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's allies won a large majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday but fell short of the predicted landslide after a row over a sales tax hike appeared to cost them votes.
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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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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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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 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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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 parliamentary majority for political and economic reforms on Monday but voters soured the right's celebrations by not giving a forecast landslide and rejecting a top minister.