Ville de Paris : les Verts voteront contre l’accord Delanoë-Chirac

Posted by admin on September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Lors du prochain Conseil de Paris, les socialistes, l’UMP, le centre et les communistes devraient voter pour le protocole d’accord avec Jacques Chirac concernant les emplois fictifs de la Mairie de Paris. Read More

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Emplois fictifs : accord en vue entre l’UMP et la mairie de Paris

Posted by admin on August 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

L’UMP devrait reverser les trois quarts de la facture des emplois fictifs qui valent à Jacques Chirac d’être renvoyé en correctionnelle, soit 2,2 millions d’euros. Read More

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FRANCE: UMP party lawmaker likens Roma evictions to ‘wartime roundups’

Posted by admin on August 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Following the latest government moves on Saturday to forcibly evict Roma people from illegal immigrant camps, a lawmaker from France’s ruling UMP party, Jean-Pierre Grand, denounced the raids by saying they resembled WWII-era “roundups”. Read More

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Audition de Woerth : le PS et les Verts dénoncent une "mise en scène"

Posted by admin on July 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Pour la socialiste Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, l’audition du ministre du travail fut un “spectacle inimaginable”. L’UMP espère que cet épisode scelle la fin de la “curée médiatique”. Read More

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FRANCE: L’Oreal billionaire heiress pledges to declare all assets after tax-dodge scandal

Posted by admin on June 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, said she would comply with the law and declare her assets, after being caught on tape allegedly plotting tax evasion while making donations to the governing UMP party. Read More

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Sarkozy down but far from out after French vote

Posted by admin on March 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As expected, French voters gave Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party a hammering in the run-off elections for regional councils. The left opposition won everywhere except Alsace and two overseas regions. The revived Socialists are jubilant and dreaming of national power while… Read More

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FRANCE: PM Fillon and Sarkozy to meet for talks after UMP defeat at polls

Posted by admin on March 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

French Prime Minister François Fillon (pictured) and President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet for talks Monday after their UMP party’s decisive defeat in regional polls. Sarkozy is expected to reshuffle his cabinet amid pressure for a shift in direction. Read More

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FRENCH REGIONAL ELECTIONS: Sarkozy’s party faces stern test in second round of regional polls

Posted by admin on March 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

France’s ruling UMP party faces a heavy defeat in the second round of regional elections Sunday, the last electoral test ahead of a 2012 presidential poll. At 5pm, turnout had reached 43.47%, up slightly from last week’s first round. Read More

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Sarkozy reels from poll pounding

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

We expected Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party to take a pasting in the regional government elections. Few expected the punishment to be as bad as it was in yesterday’s first of the two voting rounds. The Socialist opposition rose from the… Read More

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FRANCE: Socialists triumph over Sarkozy’s party in regional elections

Posted by admin on March 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

France’s Socialist-led left has defeated Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party and its allies in the first round of regional elections this Sunday after garnering 53.46% of the vote. Read More

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