French ruling party in key rally
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France's governing centre-right party, the UMP, holds its end-of-summer gathering in Marseille this weekend.
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French centrist Francois Bayrou launched his new party's parliamentary campaign on Thursday with a major Paris rally, and renewed his attacks on President Nicolas Sarkozy's close ties to the country's media moguls.
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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 is expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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PARIS, June 10 -- French voters reinforced President Nicolas Sarkozy's mandate for major reform of the nation's moribund economy and government, giving his ruling party and its allies an estimated 46 percent of the vote in Sunday's first round of parliamentary elections, according to nearly compl...
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French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy addresses party activists shortly as he begins his bid for the presidency.
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French voters went back to the polls Sunday for parliamentary elections expected to give conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy an overwhelming mandate for ambitious reforms aimed at modernizing France.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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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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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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If front-runners Nicolas Sarkozy or Segolene Royal stumble in their race for the French presidency &#151; and that's a very big "if" &#151; then a centrist rising slowly but surely in opinion polls is ready to pounce.
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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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French Socialist presidential contender Segolene Royal was preparing to set out her election programme in a speech to party delegates widely seen a turning-point in the campaign.
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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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France's Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal is shaking up her campaign team to boost her ratings.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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France&#39;s pro-European Socialists are jubilant after a party referendum on the EU constitution produced a solid majority for the treaty, boosting its chances to win approval in a national plebiscite next year.