Sarkozy headed for big win in French poll
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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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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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Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said he will run in France's presidential elections next year, according to comments posted Wednesday on the Web site of the newspaper Liberation.Comment
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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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Voting got under way on Saturday in some overseas French territories in the decisive round of parliamentary elections which are expected to hand President Nicolas Sarkozy a huge majority for his reform plans.
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The Associated Press A new opinion poll suggests center-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy would beat Socialist contender Segolene Royal in a likely second-round vote in France's presidential election in three ...Comment
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PARIS -- By tomorrow, President Nicolas Sarkozy will probably 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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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s right-wing party won an absolute majority in the French parliament on Sunday, taking 314 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, official results showed.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right allies won a solid majority in Sunday's parliamentary election, but failed to secure a widely-expected landslide, television poll forecasts showed.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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French President Jacques Chirac has congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his nomination as president of his ruling party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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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 talk of a sales tax hike appeared to cost them votes.
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Popular former French finance and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken over the leadership of his country&#39;s conservative ruling party in a move that could change the face of French politics.
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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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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.