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| | Union for French Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Its current leader, as of 2005, is François Bayrou, and the UDF is a junior partner in the coalition behind Prime Ministers Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin, though no longer in their cabinet. | | | Similarly, the social policies ranged from the conservatism of the likes of Christine Boutin, famously opposed to civil unions for homosexuals, to more liberal policies. | | | As a result, UDF, save for Gilles de Robien, quit the cabinet in the March 31, 2004 cabinet reshuffling, while still remaining in the parliamentary majority. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_French_Democracy
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| | French language - encyclopedia article about French language. |
| | It is a Union of 50 federal states, one federal district, and 14 territories. | | | Some of those provisions have remained in effect, for a while, using the constitutional "notwithstanding" clause that permits a non-compliant law to temporarily remain. | | | That provision has reversed a historical trend whereby a large number of immigrant children were being sent to English schools by their parents. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/French+language
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| | French senators are elected indirectly by the country's grands électeurs, who are elected officials such as deputies, senators and regional, general and municipal councillors. | | | Elections were held for one-third of the seats in the Senate on the normal expiry of the members' term of office. | | | On 26 September 2004 nearly 52,000 grands électeurs voted to fill a third of the seats in the French Senate. |
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| | BACKGROUND |
| | French voters of all political persuasions upheld republican values on 5 May and in the second round overwhelmingly reelected incumbent President Jacques Chirac, 69 of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) for a second term. | | | Not to be overlooked was the role of the new prime minister who has just been in office for a few weeks and together with the president was able to establish better personal contact with voters than his predecessor. | | | President Chirac, whose second term is cut short by two years to five, thanks to a constitutional change last year, said the lessons of April will not be forgotten and promised to tackle the voters’ chief worries of crime and the economy. |
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| | French prime minister wins Senate seat; good fallback if needed |
| | Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin won a seat in French Senate elections Sunday, a post that could be a useful fallback if there is truth to the rumors that his days as government chief are numbered. | | | Even though the vast majority of French citizens did not get to vote on Sunday, the prime minister painted his Senate victory as an indication of support for his conservative government's "reforming, courageous" policies. | | | But French President Jacques Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement, to which Raffarin also belongs, said it lost its outright majority, slipping from 161 seats to either 156 or 155. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/26/international1218EDT0484.DTL&type=printable
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| | France (02/03) |
| | The most distinctive feature of the French judicial system is that it is divided into the Constitutional Council and the Council of State. | | | The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by public referendum on September 28, 1958. | | | Although the revolutionaries advocated republican and egalitarian principles of government, France reverted to forms of absolute rule or constitutional monarchy four times--the Empire of Napoleon, the Restoration of Louis XVIII, the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the Second Empire of Napoleon III. |
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http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/f/28963.htm
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| | Book's allegations of contract killing sparks French furor |
| | Encornet ("Squid") is clearly Francois Leotard, former minister of defense and leader of the center-right Union for French Democracy party, while Trottinette ("Scooter") is Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of Marseilles, fellow Union for French Democracy bigwig and former minister of territorial development. | | | Lawmaker Piat uncovered proof of her fellow politicians' involvement in corrupt property deals, especially the sale of military land for private development. | | | Though it uses code names, the exposé fingers two former Cabinet ministers for allegedly having ordered the 1994 murder of Yann Piat, a fellow member of the French National Assembly. |
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http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/world/97/10/18/france-book.2-0.html
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| | The Union for French Democracy obtained 27 seats, as against a mere 22 for the Communists and Republicans. | | | During the campaign, the new Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), formed by the Rally for the Republic and Liberal Democracy, asked voters to give President Chirac a clear and coherent majority in the National Assembly in order to avoid yet another legislative term of "cohabitation". | | | Elections were held for all the seats in the National Assembly on the normal expiry of the members' term of office. |
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http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2113_E.htm
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| | Bloomberg.com: Europe |
| | The French media, from Agence France-Presse to Le Figaro reported that most of Chirac& ministers, including Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and the president of the UMP party, were kept in the dark. | | | French prime ministers chaired cabinet meetings in 1974, 1992 and 1994, the spokeswoman said, adding that it's an ``exceptional'' event. | | | Should the President stay ill for long, his functions will be taken over by the prime minister, according to the French constitution. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aHBUHss44Kb4&refer=europe
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| | French ‘Non’ Threatens European Unity - Worldpress.org |
| | France’s mainstream political parties, the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (U.M.P.) and the opposition Socialist Party (P.S.), are both officially in favor of the new constitution. | | | Fifteen opinion polls have confirmed the trend with 51 percent to 55 percent of likely voters opposed to the European Union constitutional treaty. | | | Socialist party leader Francois Hollande spoke earlier this month in Montlucon, France, at a meeting for those promoting the "No" vote in the upcoming 29 May French referendum on the European constitution. |
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http://www.worldpress.org/print_article.cfm?article_id=2188&dont=yes
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| | France: Anti-terrorism legislation tramples on civil liberties |
| | Whereas Blair and Bush may enviously contemplate Bruguière’s team’s powers, the French state is anxious to junk the country’s extensive privacy laws. | | | The judges are endowed with arbitrary powers of mass arrest and provisional and preventive detention using the vague provisions of the laws criminalising “association with miscreants” (association de malfaiteurs). | | | The French National Assembly voted on November 29 to back Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy’s new anti-terror bill. |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2005/051205trampleson.htm
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| | New French poll gives "no" majority on EU constitution - EUbusiness |
| | The ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) of President Jacques Chirac and its centrist ally, the Union for French Democracy (UDF) both had clear majorities in favour, of 77 and 55 percent. | | | The constitution is meant to streamline decision-making in the expanding bloc, and must be ratified in all 25 member states. | | | A fifth opinion poll in less than two weeks on Tuesday showed the "no" vote winning France's May 29 referendum on the EU's new constitution. |
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http://www.eubusiness.com/Institutions/050329161208.vv6yb11m
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| | BBC NEWS Europe French EU vote: Yes and No camps |
| | The left-wing peasants' union and its former president, Jose Bove, argued for a "No" vote on the grounds that the constitution would impose an economic model based on the needs of big business, instead of the people. | | | Mr Bayrou said the constitution gave France "the means to defend the European social model". | | | They called for the constitution to be rewritten, to promote "a Europe that is truly European, democratic, social, environmental". |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4559361.stm
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| | French Minority Vote Seen Crucial for EU Constitution (Sick EU Bets On Muslims to Survive) |
| | Former French president Giscard d'Estaing, the chairman of the convention that drew up the constitution, said that if the treaty was rejected, the only solution would be to hold another vote on the same text. | | | Spain was the first country to hold a referendum on the EU constitution on February 20 and those voting backed it overwhelmingly. | | | "Former French president Giscard d'Estaing, the chairman of the convention that drew up the constitution, said that if the treaty was rejected, the only solution would be to hold another vote on the same text. |
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| | Internet Challenges French Polling Laws |
| | If these figures are confirmed by voters on Sunday, this would mean a major setback for President Jacques Chirac's own party, the rightist Republican Gathering (RPR), and its partner, Union for French Democracy (UDF), which held five out of six seats in the outgoing assembly. | | | Chirac won't lose his job, but he'll have to come to terms with a socialist prime minister. | | | But "in the name of the republican principle of equality" Bouguereau decided to publish the poll figures, giving French voters something to talk about -- and risking a 500,000 Francs fine (about $90,000). |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/053097france.html
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| | Chirac and Socialists Reel After a Debate on Europe - New York Times |
| | Chirac, the main proponent of the charter, could have ratified the constitution by a parliamentary vote, but under pressure from rivals in his party demanding a popular vote, he decided last year to call for a referendum. | | | Chirac promised to heal the social divisions of France, yet opinion polls show that advocates and opponents of the constitution are split along socioeconomic lines, with those who are less well-off planning to vote against it. | | | President Jacques Chirac cast his vote on the European constitution in the southwestern town of Sarran. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/international/europe/29france.html?ex=1275019200&en=619ba591da915213&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | French Far Right May Back the Left in Runoff Election |
| | The National Front vote has increased steadily since 1981, growing from 0.3 percent of the electorate in that year to 9.9 percent in 1988, 12.7 percent in 1983 and almost 15 percent in the first round of voting this year. | | | Traditionally, the majority of National Front voters have supported the moderate right in the second round of voting; 62 percent of them did so in the 1993 elections. | | | French Far Right May Back the Left in Runoff Election |
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http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~mtwomey/newspapers/0531fran.html
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| | Democratic Underground - French 'yes' and "no' camp square off on debate on EU constitution. |
| | Barnier, speaking for President Jacques Chirac's ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), warned that France's influence within the European Union would suffer should the country vote 'no' on May 29. | | | More than 20 polls taken since mid-March have shown that French voters will reject the constitution in the May 29 referendum. | | | Top representatives of France's political parties squared off Monday in a live televised debate on the European constitution, with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier urging a 'yes' vote in a May referendum. |
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| | Association for Union Democracy -- union democracy for a strong labor movement. |
| | Information on RICO, struggles for democracy in the ILA, running for ILA delegate and more. | | | Complete text of the LMRDA the law that covers union members' rights and officers' responsibilities. | | | Learn about Schonfeld's fight against the mob, the landmark Salzhandler case, the murders of Wilson and Green, and more. |
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| | The Militant - 6/23/97 -- Workers Reject Austerity In French Elections |
| | "Its only hope of surviving lies now in using more and more criminal alternatives." The YS is calling for the right to vote for all immigrants, French troops out of Africa and Albania, the shortening of the workweek with no loss in pay, and the end of the embargo against Cuba. | | | PARIS - Working people across France sharply rejected the government's austerity policies in parliamentary elections held here May 25 and June 1. | | | Asked to comment about his past he said, "My past is my honor." |
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http://www.themilitant.com/1997/6124/6124_1.html
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| | FRENCH MAYORS PROTEST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE |
| | Michel Pinton, the former secretary-general of the large Union for French Democracy party (UDF) and now mayor of the small village of Felletin in central France, initiated the petition warning France's 36,000 mayors that they would be asked to officiate at these "weddings." | | | The measure has led to nearly 12,000 of France's mayors signing a petition to halt the governments plans. | | | PARIS, Apr 21(LSN) - Catholic World News reported this morning that France's socialist government is preparing to legalize homosexual marriage. |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/1998/apr/98042103.html
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| | ::.Angus Reid Consultants.:: |
| | On May 29, 54.8 per cent of all French voters rejected the European Constitution in a nationwide plebiscite. | | | Two days after the ballot, French president Jacques Chirac appointed Dominique de Villepin as the country’s new prime minister, substituting Jean-Pierre Raffarin. | | | Do you have a positive or negative opinion of the following political parties? |
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| | French center-right makes historic merger |
| | The new one, whose name was chosen at its first congress on northern outskirts of Paris, marked the official birth of a single party, which has long been a dream of France's conservative politicians. | | | PARIS, Nov. 17 (Xinhuabet) -- With the creation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) on Sunday, the French center-right politicians made a historic merger and formed a single broad union backing President Jacques Chirac to govern the country in at least the next five years. | | | French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is one of the leaders of the DL. |
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| | CNN - French premier announces he'll step down - May 26, 1997 |
| | PARIS (CNN) -- French premier Alain Juppe announced he would resign Monday, a day after his center-right coalition made its worst showing in a first-round parliamentary election in more than 30 years. | | | French heartland voters cynical as election nears - May 19, 1997 | | | Juppe, 51, had been hinting that he might sacrifice his own position if it was necessary to help his coalition prevail. |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/26/france.elex
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told the French senate that the Lebanon-based Al-Manar's programs were incompatible with French values. | | | Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), said the signatories included the leaders of France's four major political parties. | | | "Al-Manar broke its agreement to respect French law and the CSA is requesting a ruling from the State Council that it cease broadcasting," the source said. |
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| | French National Assembly - Freepedia |
| | Following from a tradition started by the first French National Assembly during the French revolution, the "left-wing" parties sit to the left as seen from the president's seat, and the "right-wing" parties sit to the right, and the seating thus directly indicates the political spectrum as represented in the Assembly. | | | The last legislative elections, held in June 2002 resulted in the following distribution of seats: | | | The French National Assembly (French: "Assemblée nationale") is one of the two houses of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. |
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| | Le Pen's National Front cracks mainstream's wall |
| | In five of the country's administrative regions, members of traditional conservative parties have been elected to regional presidencies with votes of Front politicians after giving tacit support for some elements of the far-right party's platform. | | | The previous night, Le Pen declared that since his party helped the moderate right in five regions, he expected its aid, under the principle of "reciprocity," for his bid to become president of the heavily populated and important Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of southern France. | | | Last Friday, Charles Baur in Picardy, Jacques Blanc in Languedoc-Roussillon, Bernard Harang in Centre, Charles Millon in Rhone-Alpes and Jean-Pierre Soisson in Burgundy -- all members of the Union for French Democracy coalition or UDF -- were elected or re-elected presidents of their regional councils with the support of National Front counselors. |
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http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/world/98/03/24/france.html
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| | Democracy |
| | Lesotho Congress for Democracy Lesotho Congress for Democracy is a general elections. | | | Party for Democracy The Party for Democracy is a governing political party in Ricardo Lagos, is a member of this party. | | | People's Front for Democracy and Justice The People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the only legal Eritrean politic... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/democracy.html
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| | Mediating European Integration in the 1990s |
| | In France, for instance, President Mitterand approached the referendum with the hope that in supporting it he would be able to capitalize upon the strength of pro-Europeanism in France to garner support for his Socialist Party in the forthcoming election and for his own candidature for re-election as French President. | | | "French Approve Unity Treaty, But Slim Margin Leaves Doubts." The New York Times 21 Sept 1992: A1+. | | | In 1992, French President Francois Mitterand introduced a national referendum to accept the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty). |
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http://www.berea.edu/faculty/berheidem/KPSA/Rifai/Jollypaper.html
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| | Update on French "head scarves" school ban - @forums |
| | The French cabinet has approved a law banning Islamic headscarves and other religious symbols in state schools. | | | But Mr Chirac's stand reflects popular opinion in France where some 70% of the electorate have said they back a ban on religious symbols in schools. | | | Former education minister Francois Bayrou, of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) - the coalition partner of Mr Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) - said he would oppose the law because "the disadvantages outweigh the advantages". |
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http://www.atforumz.com/showthread.php?t=223134
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| | New French government sparks controversy |
| | De Villepin -- a loyalist to President Jacques Chirac -- appointed his rival, Nicolas Sarkozy, as his deputy in the new center-right line-up, and to succeed him as interior minister. | | | PARIS, June 2 (UPI) -- France's new cabinet may have been designed to boost public confidence in government, but it has created a rift in the political ranks. | | | The government's former coalition partner, the centrist Union for French Democracy, said it would not participate in the administration of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and his appointments were being condemned by the Green Party, Socialists and Communists, the BBC reported Thursday. |
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| | Unlikely threat to EU charter? The French. csmonitor.com |
| | As voters prepare for a May 29 referendum on the subject, five opinion polls in recent days put opponents of the constitution clearly ahead of supporters. | | | Cautious Alito follows Roberts's script in quest for Supreme Court spot | | | Nor does the fact that the constitution was drafted by a convention chaired by a former French president, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, appear to help. |
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| | French euro vote opens party rifts |
| | The strangest behaviour was seen on the Right, where the neo-Gaullist RPR party had suddenly announced that it would abstain from the vote. | | | 23 March 1998: French sneer at Blair's Euro claim | | | The decision follows a declaration on Tuesday that it would be voting against the single currency, not because it disapproved of the euro, but because it disagreed with the Socialist-led government's economic policy. |
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| | Catholic World News : French Mayors Ask Government To Drop Same-Sex Marriage Plan |
| | French Mayors Ask Government To Drop Same-Sex Marriage Plan | | | Catholic World News : French Mayors Ask Government To Drop Same-Sex Marriage Plan | | | France's Socialist-led government is preparing legislation to introduce a "contract of social union" that will give homosexual or heterosexual couples living together, the legal rights currently enjoyed by married people. |
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| | Elections in France |
| | Rassemblement pour la France (Rally for France): nationalist party | | | Parti pour la Normandie Indépendante (Party for Independent Normandy) | | | Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 1 and on civil rights with a 1, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free). |
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| | AllRefer.com - France : Government, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | The president presides over the council of ministers, is the commander in chief of the armed forces, and has power to dissolve the national assembly. | | | The country is governed under the 1958 constitution, which established the Fifth French Republic and reflected the views of Charles de Gaulle. | | | It provides for a strong president, directly elected for a five-year term (changed from a seven-year term in 2000). |
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| | U.S. Commercial Service France: Political Environment |
| | France is a democratic republic whose political system is based on a written constitution that was approved by referendum in 1958. | | | According to the French Constitution, as amended, the President of the Republic is elected by direct suffrage every five years. | | | The French political spectrum includes numerous political parties. |
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| | France - dKosopedia |
| | Union for A Popular Movement - Major Right-wing Party | | | Even fewer French langauge films are screened in Dothan, Alabama. | | | Current and Former French Politicians and Political Figures |
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| | Guadeloupe: country profile |
| | Guadeloupe has 4 deputies and 2 senators in the French parliament. | | | Jean-François Carenco (since 1999), commissioner appointed by the French Government. | | | Includes the dependencies of Marie Galante, La Désirade, Les Saintes, Petite-Terre, St Berthélemy and the French section of St Martin forming part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. |
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| | French West Indies Government Information |
| | cabinet: NA elections: prefect appointed by the president of France on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; the presidents of the General and Regional Councils are elected by the members of those councils | | | Judicial branch: Court of Appeal or Cour d'Appel with jurisdiction over Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique | | | Political pressure groups and leaders: Movement for Independent Guadeloupe or MPGI; General Union of Guadeloupe Workers or UGTG; General Federation of Guadeloupe Workers or CGT-G; Christian Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe or KLPG |
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| | Turkey 'not ready' yet to join EU: French PM |
| | Many in his ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, including ministers, have declared themselves opposed to the future inclusion of a country that is predominantly Muslim and comparatively poor. | | | However, in an unusual approach criticised by many MPs and underlining the deep divide over the issue, the exchange was not to be put to a vote. | | | The head of the UMP`s junior partner, Francois Bayrou of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), stated his party`s opposition, saying the effect of Turkish membership on the EU would be "a step towards its dispersion" and bring the bloc to the borders of Iraq, Iran and Syria. |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=30739
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| | Interview with French Communist Party deputy Maxime Gremetz |
| | Gremetz, first elected in 1978, has made a name for himself as something of a flamboyant politician, or more precisely, as something of a Stalinist demagogue. | | | Gremetz has been an opponent of PCF General Secretary Robert Hue for some time. | | | They were no doubt particularly alarmed by the votes cast by three million people in the April 21 first round of the presidential election for three so-called “Trotskyist” parties. |
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| | Analysis: French greet EU vote with a yawn - (United Press International) |
| | UK voters give Blair a kicking over Iraq | | | Supporting Iraq is not at play in France, where the conservative Union for a Popular Majority party of President Jacques Chirac led international opposition to the U.S.-led war. | | | Voters in Britain and the Netherlands, for example, appeared to have sanctioned their ruling parties for backing the war on Iraq, which was resoundingly unpopular in Europe. |
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| | Raymond Barre |
| | Although he was a right-wing politician who pursued an austere economic program, Barre was a popular leader. | | | He was elected to the national assembly in 1978 as a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF). | | | In 1988 Barre placed third in the presidential election, behind François |
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| | A Special Advertising Section on Martinique |
| | Executive Branch: Chief of State President of France (Jacques Chirac); Prefect Dominique Bellion appointed by French Ministry of Interior; President of General Council Claude Lise (PPM); President of the Regional Council Alfred Marie Jeanne (PM) | | | Political Parties: Rally for the Republic (RPR); Union for a Martinique of Progress (UMP); Martinique Progressive Party (PPM); Socialist Faction of Martinique (FSM); Martinique Communist Party (PCM); Martinique Patriots (PM); Union for French Democracy (UDF); Martinique Republican Party (PR) | | | Flag: A light blue background divided into four quadrants by a white cross, in the center of each rectangle is a white snake; for official functions the Flag of France is used |
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