French Election Still Wide Open
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race. Forty percent of those polled said they still don't know whom they want as president
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PARIS One would think it was their leader being elected - and many Europeans believe it is, in a way. In a tremendous show of interest unseen in previous US presidential campaigns, Europeans on both sides
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, aiming to push through his reform-driven renaissance of a morose France, looked set to win a powerful majority as the French voted in Sunday's runoff elections for parliament.
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FranÃ§ois Bayrou is gaining ground in a presidential campaign dominated by a nurturing Socialist and a crime-busting conservative.
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In so many ways, French politician and presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy is a breath of fresh air in French and European politics.
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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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VITROLLES, France, Sept. 29 -- Segolene Royal confirmed  Friday that she wants to become the Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, officially entering a race against a string of party heavyweights.
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The risk of abstention looms large in  Sunday&#39;s parliamentary election, with many French voters saying  President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s conservatives will win regardless  of their vote.
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PARIS -- School doors open for 12 million French children today, but there is far more at stake this year than back-to-school jitters.
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France goes to the polls for the second  time in a just over a month on Sunday when it votes in  parliamentary elections that are expected to seal President  Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s grip on power.
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The risk of abstention looms large in Sunday's parliamentary election, with many French voters saying President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives will win regardless of their vote.
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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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With no heir apparent in the running, the U.S. presidential race is wide open for Democrats and Republicans with two weeks to go before voting begins in the state-by-state process to select party candidates.
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  set to secure a big majority in parliament next month,  according to a poll for the Paris Match magazine released on  Wednesday.
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PARIS -- The day after S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate, unveiled an ambitious election platform that would add billions of euros to government spending, her campaign said yesterday it needed a little more time to figure out who would pay for it.
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France goes to the polls for the second time in a just over a month on Sunday when it votes in parliamentary elections that are expected to seal President Nicolas Sarkozy's grip on power.
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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.