Royal launches French presidential bid as rival Sarkozy struggles
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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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Voting began in the first round of  France&#39;s legislative election on Sunday with President Nicolas  Sarkozy&#39;s conservative UMP party expected to strengthen its  hold on power.
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Segolene Royal, the socialist politician widely tipped to be her party's candidate in next year's French presidential election, stressed the need for southern European countries to better fight illegal immigration as she met with centre-left counterparts in Spain.
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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 presidential hopefuls Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as something new for France and both have seasoned advertising executives to help them do it.
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s political opponents struggled on Tuesday to energize their campaign and prevent the French leader&#39;s rightwing party from winning a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.
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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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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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French socialist and popular favourite Segolene Royal Friday officially entered the race to be the country's next president, announcing that she is a candidate for her party's nomination.Comment
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President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend Carla Bruni are taking budget airline Ryanair to court over a photo of the couple featured in a recent ad campaign, their lawyer said Wednesday.
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France's Socialist champion Segolene Royal has shifted up an election gear, drawing to a close the &quot;listening phase&quot; of her campaign and finally spelling out what she plans to do if elected the country's first woman president in May.
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Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal came under fire over her bid to lead the leftist party on Monday, with one rival accusing her of seeking to establish a monarchy.
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading presidential candidate for France's ruling conservative party, swept through Washington yesterday, delivering an unabashedly pro-American speech and landing meetings with President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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JERUSALEM -- Seeing a chance to add diplomatic credentials to her bid for France's presidency, S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal jumped into the intricacies of the Middle East crisis with gusto -- only to get tripped up in Lebanon.
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Voting began in the first round of France's legislative election on Sunday with President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party expected to strengthen its hold on power.
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A combative Segolene Royal took the stage  on Tuesday for the first time since her presidential poll  defeat, promising to fight for a Socialist success in  parliamentary elections but staying quiet about her own future.