Showing posts with label French Socialists. Show all posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: French President Francois [sic] Hollande's Socialists and allies came out on top in first-round parliamentary elections on Sunday, and were poised to secure the majority needed to push through tax-and-spend reforms.The election also saw a surge in support for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front, which wants to ditch the euro and battle against what she calls the "Islamisation" of France.
The Socialists, Greens and allies won around 46 per cent of the vote, ahead of the 34 per cent for ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party and its allies, the final results released by the interior ministry showed.
Pollsters TNS Sofres, IPOs and OpinonWay agreed that the Socialists and close allies might win between 283-329 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly or potentially as many as 329 and could hold power in the parliament without relying of the votes of the Greens or the anti-capitalist Left Front.
Hollande defeated Sarkozy in last month's presidential election and wants voters to give him a strong mandate to enact reforms as France battles Europe's crippling debt crisis, rising joblessness and a stagnant economy.
If next week's second round confirms Sunday's results, it will boost his status in Europe as champion of the movement away from German-led fixation on austerity towards growth, which he favours as the solution to the economic crisis. » | Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday, May 15, 2011
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, is being questioned by police in New York over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid, after he was arrested and removed from a plane on the tarmac of John F. Kennedy airport.Mr Strauss-Kahn, a prominent French Socialist politician who was expected to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy for the country's presidency next year, allegedly attacked the 32-year-old maid in his room at the Sofitel, near Times Square.
The 62-year-old is said to have emerged naked from his bathroom and forced himself on the woman, who had entered to clean his room at about 1pm on Saturday. He then "attempted to sexually assault her", Paul Browne, a New York Police Department spokesman, said on Saturday night.
Unconfirmed reports alleged that Mr Strauss-Kahn had forced the maid to perform oral sex on him, before she left the room and alerted colleagues, who called 911. Mr Strauss-Kahn then departed for JFK airport, leaving his mobile phone in the hotel room.
He was apprehended in the First Class cabin of Air France Flight 23, which was 10 minutes away from taking off for Paris, at about 4.40 on Saturday afternoon. He was escorted off the plane by two plainclothes detectives, who did not need to use handcuffs. » | Jon Swaine, New York | Sunday, May 15, 2011
NEW YORK POST: IMF Head Strauss-Kahn Pulled Off Plane, Arrested in Alleged Sodomy of Hotel Maid: The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources said. » | Philip Messing, Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Bill Sanderson | Saturday, May 14, 2011
LE FIGARO: DSK arrêté à New York pour agression sexuelle : Le directeur du FMI devrait être inculpé d'«agression sexuelle et de tentative de viol» après la plainte d'une femme de chambre d'un hôtel de Manhattan. Il a été interpellé alors qu'il s'apprêtait à s'envoler pour Paris. » | Par lefigaro.fr | Dimanche 15 Mai 2011
leJDD.fr: DSK arrêté dans une affaire d’agression sexuelle : Dominique Strauss-Kahn a été arrêté et accusé d'agression sexuelle ce samedi. Le patron du FMI et potentiel candidat socialiste pour 2012 a été appréhendé par les forces de l'ordre américaines à l'aéroport JFK de New York. Il est en garde à vue et "va être inculpé d'agression sexuelle, de séquestration de personne et de tentative de viol", a affirmé samedi soir à la presse un responsable de la police de New York. » | Vivien Vergnaud - leJDD.fr | Dimanche 15 Mai 2011
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: IWF-Chef Strauss-Kahn festgenommen: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Direktor des Internationalen Währungsfonds, ist auf dem New Yorker Flughafen festgenommen worden. Die Behörden gehen Vorwürfen nach, er solle versucht haben, ein Zimmermädchen zum Oralsex zu zwingen. » | dapd | Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: An embarrassing split between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his prime minister, François Fillon, emerged on Tuesday over how to deal with the threat from France's far-Right National Front.Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) made historic gains in the first round of local elections on Sunday, only trailing Mr Sarkozy's UMP party by two percentage points on 15 per cent.
The Socialists, who came top on 25 per cent, are calling for a "Republic front" against the FN in next Sunday's second round, where the far-Right is present in almost 400 "cantons" in the country's 100 departments. The Left is urging its supporters to vote UMP in cantons where it is an also-ran to keep the FN out.
Several UMP moderates called on its electorate to vote tactically. But Mr Sarkozy refused to explicitly urge his supporters to vote for the Left in the 200 or so cantons where the race is between Socialists and the FN. He told party leaders that a call to vote Socialist "would be tantamount to sending a signal of collusion between the UMP and Socialist Party".
However, on Monday night, prime minister Fillon, who has reportedly been ill at ease with attempts by Mr Sarkozy to veer Right to attract FN support, caused confusion by telling UMP members: "You must vote against the National Front". » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 22, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy will seek to relaunch his embattled presidency on Monday after his Right-wing party suffered a crushing defeat in France’s regional elections, seen as a test of his popularity.
Mr Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) was on course last night to lose in all but one of 22 regions in mainland France. As one analyst put it, the president must reinvent “le Sarkozysme 2.0” — a new ideology to woo disillusioned voters in the run-up to 2012 presidential elections.
A coalition between the opposition Socialists and Greens, whose party is called Europe Ecologie, swept the floor in the second round vote marked by a low turnout - 51 per cent - and the lowest score for the Right in more than three decades.
As polling stations closed, exit polls gave the Socialists and Greens 54 per cent of the vote, the UMP 36 percent and the far-Right National Front just under nine per cent.
Despite pushing hard-line policies on immigration and security, the president’s allies were weakened by a strong showing for the National Front, which won no regions but was in 12 run-offs.
The UMP’s sole consolation, besides holding Alsace, was taking the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Sunday, March 21, 2010
leJDD.fr: La gauche en force : Comme annoncé, la gauche a largement remporté les élections régionales, dont le second tour s'est déroulé dimanche. Dans le détail, la majorité UMP-Nouveau centre a toutefois évité une déroute totale en conservant l'Alsace. Outre-mer, La Réunion a également basculé de gauche à droite. >>> Nicolas Moscovici, leJDD.fr | Dimanche 21 Mars 2010
WELT ONLINE: Nicolas Sarkozys Partei UMP erleidet bei den französischen Regionalwahlen eine schwere Niederlage – Sozialisten siegen in fast allen Regionen. Schon bald trifft Sarkozy mit Premierminister Fillon zusammen: Es wird damit gerechnet, dass der Präsident zumindest mit einer kleinen Kabinettsumbildung reagiert.
Die Regierungspartei von Präsident Nicolas Sarkozy hat in der zweiten Runde der Regionalwahlen die erwartete deutliche Niederlage hinnehmen müssen. Nach ersten Hochrechnungen kam die UMP im Landedurchschnitt auf lediglich 36,1 Prozent der Stimmen. Die Sozialisten (PS), die in den meisten Regionen mit Grünen und Kommunisten gemeinsame Listen gebildet hatten, kamen dagegen auf 54,3 Prozent. Die rechtsextreme Front National erreichte landesweit 8,7 Prozent.
In den 22 französischen Kern-Regionen konnte sich die UMP lediglich im traditionell rechten Elsass durchsetzen. Selbst im ebenfalls in der Regel konservativ tendierenden Korsika setzte sich die PS – wie in 19 weiteren Regionen - durch. Im Languedoc-Roussillon siegte zudem mit Gerge Frèche ein Kandidat, der nur deswegen nicht mehr offiziell als Sozialist gilt, weil die Parteiführung unter der Vorsitzenden Martine Aubry den Provinzfürsten wenige Wochen vor der Wahl wegen als antisemitisch interpretierbarer Bemerkungen von ihrer Liste gestrichen hatte.
Die Regionalwahlen sind die letzten Wahlen in Frankreich vor der nächsten Präsidentschaftswahl im Jahr 2012 und gelten deshalb als wichtiger Stimmungstest. Sarkozy wird am Montagmorgen mit Premierminister François Fillon im Élysée-Palast zusammenkommen und über Konsequenzen aus dem Wahlergebnis beraten. >>> Von Sascha Lehnartz | Sontag, 21. März 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
BBC: France's opposition Socialists have come out against a law banning the burka - even though they remain firmly opposed to the garment.
The announcement comes ahead of a parliamentary report on the issue that is due out later this month.
Last summer, French MPs held hearings on whether to ban the Muslim veil, which covers the body from head to toe.
President Nicolas Sarkozy had said the burka was "not welcome" in France, home to Europe's largest Muslim population.
Mr Sarkozy has left open the idea of introducing legislation to ban the burka.
While the Socialist Party opposes the wearing of the burka, it was "not favourable" to a legal ban, said party spokesman Benoit Hamon. >>> | Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
FINANCIAL TIMES: Nicolas Sarkozy has sailed into trouble by spending his post-presidential election holiday on a private yacht, belonging to one of France's richest men, off the coast of Malta in the Mediterranean.
Officials from the opposition Socialist party criticised the incoming president for taking a three-day break away from the spotlight on a 60-metre yacht owned by Vincent Bolloré, the billionaire corporate raider.
"What is a problem, is the style of this holiday, the fact that it is on the yacht of a rich businessman and we don't know today if it was the Republic that covered the expense of this trip," said François Hollande, leader of the Socialist party.
"We thought the Chirac presidency was over and it was what Mr Sarkozy doubtless called 'a rupture' but I see that it is more a question of continuity," he said, referring to outgoing president Jacques Chirac's penchant for luxury holidays. Sarkozy sails into storm over holiday on private yacht (Read on)
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