Topic: French Politics
Fresh with a first-place showing in round one of regional elections over President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing UMP party, France's Socialists now have a week of deal-making with rival leftist parties to try to secure dominance in the upcoming runoff — and 2 1/2 years to transform ...
France's Socialists on Monday worked to secure alliances with rival leftists going into next weekend's final round of regional elections, an attempt to bolster their front against President Nicolas Sarkozy's struggling conservatives. In Sunday's first-round balloting, Sarkozy's party suffered a national beating by voters who took their ...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's party fought on Monday to recover from a first-round beating by opposition Socialists in French regional elections that also saw the far-right National Front surge back. Final results showed the Socialists set to crush Sarkozy's governing UMP party in Sunday's second-round polls -- the last major ballot before the 2012 presidential vote. In a vote ...
