France's Sarkozy wins poll despite resurgent left
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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.
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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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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy, aiming to push through his vision for a morose France, looked set to win a powerful majority as the French voted in Sunday's runoff elections for parliament. The only question was the size of the victory &#151; large or massive.
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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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French voters believe Socialist candidate Segolene Royal does not have the authority or competence of conservative frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy, but would make a better president, according to an opinion poll released on Tuesday.
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PARIS, Jun 20 (IPS) - In his successful bid to lead the country this past  spring, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made reform of the  country's immigration system a centrepiece of his campaign,  at one point telling a news conference that France was  "exasperated by the dispute about national identity and by  uncontrolled immigration."
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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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Nicolas Sarkozy, the charismatic finance minister and pretender to the French presidency, claimed pole position to succeed Jacques Chirac by standing for the leadership of the governing conservative party at ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party crushed the Socialists in the first round of parliamentary elections but still faces major reform hurdles, despite the likely weakness of the opposition.
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France's political scene changed dramatically when Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious finance minister, was formally named the new leader of the ruling conservative party -- widely seen as the start of his march to replace Jacques Chirac as French president in 2007.
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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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French conservatives were headed for a  parliamentary landslide after a first round legislative  election on Sunday, bolstering President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s  plans to implement wide-ranging reforms.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday hailed the French parliament's adoption of the European Union's new reform treaty as a "success" that restores the country to its rightful place in Europe.
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Campaigning drew to a close Saturday for the second round of France&#39;s parliamentary election, which is expected to deliver an overwhelming majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ambitious programme of reform.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced into a cabinet rethink on Monday after losing a senior minister in a parliamentary election that gave him an unexpectedly small majority, but his reforms remained on track.