Le Pen's election bid in trouble
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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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Nicolas Sarkozy and his new flame Carla Bruni have transfixed the world's gossip press for weeks, but the jet-setting romance seems to have backfired among French voters worried their president is taking his eye off the job.
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French President Jacques Chirac's critics allege he is trying to get his former legal adviser into a key post to escape being tried on corruption charges.
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France's Socialist candidate Segolene Royal tries to revive her presidential bid in a televised appearance.
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France has been ardently pro-EU - but enlargement has raised new fears, and voters might still reject the constitution.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen is to unveil his presidential platform as the far-right leader trails in the opinion polls.
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a ministry for immigration and national identity.
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Paris -- A high-stakes scheme to free two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq threatens to embroil President Jacques Chirac in a political scandal over whether his government assisted private intermediaries in negotiating with terrorists for the hostages
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French President Chirac's ruling party risks losing its outright majority in an indirect vote to the Senate.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over its budget deficit.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen gets a three-month suspended jail term for playing down Nazi war crimes.
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President Jacques Chirac passed his 72nd birthday yesterday locked in a struggle to maintain his relevance in the face of an intraparty challenge and continuing friction with the world's only superpower.
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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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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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She lost an election. Now S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal has shed a mate. In France the marital exploits of the nation's pols are becoming fair game
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She electrified France last fall, but the Socialist presidential candidate has hurt her chances with a succession of foreign-policy gaffes. Can she get the wind back in her sails?
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Jean-Marie Le Pen is shaking up France's election season, thanks to some surprising new supporters