Sarkozy wants Le Pen in poll race
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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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The race opens this week for the prize of carrying the opposition Socialist Party (PS) banner in France's approaching elections, with the star of the opinion polls Segolene Royal well-positioned to pursue her bid to be the country's first woman president.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen says rivals are making joint efforts to stop him running for president.
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The race for the French presidency will move up a gear this week with the official investiture of Segolene Royal as the Socialist Party's (PS) candidate and with Nicolas Sarkozy throwing his hat into the ring for the right-wing UMP party's nomination.
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring ...Comment
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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's visit to Poland on Thursday could tip the balance in persuading its eurosceptic conservative leaders not to veto talks on a new European Union treaty.
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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, 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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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring elections.
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France's battered Socialists, facing a crushing election loss in parliament, called on voters on Monday to prevent a landslide victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy in next week's second round ballot.
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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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VALMY, France  - Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le   Pen launched his 2007 presidential campaign on an historic   French battleground on Wednesday, urging people of all colors   and origins to rally to his anti-immigration flag.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday he wants to use his country's upcoming presidency of the European Union to thrash out an agreement on changing the fishing quotas system.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed holding talks between Iraqi factions in France similar to those it hosted in July for Lebanon, in an interview published Sunday in the Al-Hayat daily.
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France votes in the first round of  parliamentary elections on Sunday with President Nicolas  Sarkozy&#39;s party expected to strengthen its hold on power,  clearing the way for him to push ahead with reforms.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.