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| | Union for A Popular Movement - dKosopedia |
 | | Nicolas Sarkozy, France's extremly popular interior minister, was elected president of the party, in spite of his very tense relationship with Chirac, whom he openly campaigns to succeed. | | | But after he was found guilty in the trial of one of the murky election finances issues that have been pursuing Chirac and his former aides as mayor of Paris, he resigned. | | | De Villepin, cold and never elected to any office before he was chosen as Prime Minister, is not as popular but he is Chirac's new "favorite son" on whom he counts to carry his legacy and his policy choices may appeal more to Frenchpeople. |
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| | Jacques Chirac article - Jacques Chirac 17 1995 François Mitterrand 29 November 1932 Paris Union a Popular - ... |
| | With the new party firmly under his control, Chirac was elected mayor of Paris in 1977, a position he held until 1995. | | | By an astute move he secured his election as secretary-general of the Gaullist UDR in the face of potential opposition from the party "barons" and soon afterwards consolidated his hold over the majority by easily defeating an opposition motion of censure. | | | Jacques Chirac (second name René, born 29 November 1932) is a French politician. |
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| | France: Villepin's cabinet announced - Wikinews |
| | Head of the majority Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes as a second-in-command as Minister of the Interior, with the honorific rank of Minister of State. | | | The Ministry of the Interior is traditionally one of the most important positions in the cabinet, with that of Finances; the Minister of the Interior is in charge, notably, of law enforcement and relationships with local governments. | | | Dominique Perben, who pushed for controversial law which opponents allege curtail fundamental constitutional freedoms while Minister of Justice, was moved to the less sensitive position of Minister of Transportation and Equipment. |
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| | Organizing and Repression: 1978: The popular movement |
| | Both professors were important connections between the University and the labor movement and, in the case of De Leon Schlotter, with the opposition political parties (Nuevo Diario: October 23 1978). | | | Even the University Governing Board (composed of a dean and a student leader from each school, together with representatives from each of the country's professional associations) used its position and its financial resources to criticize the government and to defend the popular movement through regular press declarations. | | | Many University progressives appeared on the list, including the rector, various deans and the AEU's secretary general, Oliverio Castañeda (Black 1984: 45; McClintock 1985: 141). |
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| | European Union At Crossroads |
| | Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, his economy minister and leader of the dominant Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). | | | Supporters of the constitution undoubtedly prefer parliamentary approval, mainly because it is less cumbersome, and limited to politicians generally in favor of European integration. | | | In addition to linking the constitution to a variety of domestic problems, many French voters resent this country's diluted role in the expanded union. |
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| | fuckfrance.com - JUPPE RESIGNATION OPENS WAY FOR PRESIDENTIAL BATTLE OF WILLS (723433) - Read article: |
| | A former prime minister once described by Chirac as the "best from among us," Juppe, 58, stepped down from the presidency of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party six months after his conviction by a Paris court for illegal political funding in the early 1990s. | | | Though no surprise, his resignation immediately cleared the battle-ground for a long-awaited showdown between Chirac and the politician who is emerging as his greatest threat: the highly ambitious Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. |
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| | Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party was one of three movements advocating Angolan independence from Portugal. | | | South Africa intervened militarily in favor of the conservative FNLA and UNITA which also received support from Zaire and the United States after Cuba, backed by the Soviet Union, intervened in favor of the Marxist-Leninist MPLA. | | | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola) is an Angolan political party that has ruled the country since independence in 1975. |
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| | Expatica's French news in English: Villepin pulls ahead of Sarkozy as most popular |
| | However de Villepin, who is a close ally of President Jacques Chirac, is widely credited with an accomplished performance during his four months in office -- and his ratings have been creeping upwards. | | | Villepin, who remained unchanged at 48 percent, also overtook the leading left-wing politician Bernard Kouchner who fell to 47 percent as well. | | | PARIS, Sept 29 (AFP) - French prime minister Dominique de Villepin has for the first time overtaken interior minister and ruling party chief Nicolas Sarkozy as the most popular figure on the right, according to an opinion poll Thursday. |
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| | Apathy and protest mark historic vote for European Union's parliament - billingsgazette.com |
| | Anti-EU parties made a major impact, riding a wave of high voter discontent over how the European Union is run: Britain's UK Independence Party took 12 seats - four times as many as in the last elections in 1999. | | | Blair's Labour Party won 17 seats to 25 for the main opposition Conservatives and 11 for the Liberal Democrats, although Harley noted seats from Scotland and Northern Ireland have yet to be allocated. | | | Labour's poor performance in this vote and in the local council elections held concurrently - the party came in an unprecedented third - was widely attributed to popular dismay over Blair's support for President Bush on Iraq. |
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| | Sarkozy to Lead France's Ruling Party (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Chirac had initially tried to block Sarkozy's ascent to the helm of the ruling party, the Union for a Popular Movement, but on Sunday he warmly congratulated his younger rival. | | | Chirac -- in a bid to curb Sarkozy's rising popularity -- declared last summer that no cabinet member would be allowed to hold the party presidency. | | | Election Puts Popular Finance Minister in Position to Run for Presidency |
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| | Chirac Urges French OK of EU Constitution - PARIS - President Jacques Chirac made a dramatic last-ditch appeal Thursday ... |
| | Another possibility is Nicolas Sarkozy, who heads Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement and previously, as interior minister, presided over a drop in crime. | | | Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, who as foreign minister made France's case at the United Nations against the U.S.-led Iraq war, and Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie were seen as the most likely replacements for Raffarin. | | | Sarkozy is seen as a long shot to replace Raffarin because of his rivalry with Chirac. |
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| | Union for a Popular Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | UMP has an absolute majority in the lower house of the Parliament but relies on its reluctant junior partner UDF in the Senate. | | | Many analysts view this appointment as a step towards the French Presidency in 2007. | | | UMP is a member of the International Democrat Union. |
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| | Politics European Union |
| | Prospect features an interesting article by Anand Menon, Professor of European politics at the University of Birmingham, on what will be a struggle to ratify the EU Constitutional Treaty;Ultimately, the task of the yes campaign [in Britain] is to persuade... | | | The President-designate of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has announced the twenty four Commissioners he hopes will be approved by the European Parliament on November 1st to serve for the next five years. | | | UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw delivered a speech today, "THIS IS A TREATY FOR AN EFFECTIVE EUROPEAN UNION OF NATIONS," which mentions the word "constitution" exactly 0 times, "constitutional treaty" twice and "treaty" a further thirteen times. |
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| | union Popular Bibliography. |
| | Union, North -- (the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale") | | | => Union, North -- (the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale") | | | => cell, cadre -- (a small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement) |
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| | Turkey Membership Splits EU Europe Deutsche Welle 06.10.2004 |
| | France -- President Jacques Chirac personally supports Turkish entry, but his conservative Union for a Popular Movement party is largely against it as is Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. | | | Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, with European Union Commission President Romano Prodi, rightItaly -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi warmly endorses Turkey's bid, but his government coalition is not necessarily united behind him. | | | The extreme conservative Northern League has opposed starting negotiation talks with Ankara as have senior Vatican officials, who carry significant weight in the largely Catholic country. |
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| | The Epoch Times New Head of French Ruling Party Resigns Finance Ministry |
| | Nicolas Sarkozy submitted his resignation Monday in Paris, fulfilling a promise made to his main political rival within the Union for a Popular Movement party, President Jacques Chirac. | | | The new head of the ruling political party in France has resigned his post as finance minister, one day after taking over the party. | | | Chirac's office immediately announced that Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard will succeed Mr. |
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| | France's Ruling Party Chief Quits - France.com |
| | Former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe has resigned as leader of President Jacques Chirac's ruling Union for a Popular Movement, paving the way for a party succession battle. | | | Juppe announced his resignation Friday, following his conviction earlier this year in a corruption case. | | | Sarkozy is positioning himself for a run for the French presidency in 2007, when Mr. |
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| | TIME Europe Magazine: President Sarkozy? -- Oct. 11, 2004 |
| | France's popular Finance Minister is leaving government to make a bid for president of his party. | | | Next month Sarkozy will resign as Finance Minister after his expected election to the relatively obscure post of president of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). | | | The ump is the successor to the Rally for the Republic, the party President Jacques Chirac founded in 1976 to support his presidential ambitions. |
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| | France (10/05) |
| | During his tenure, President Mitterrand stressed the importance of European integration and advocated the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on European economic and political union, which France's electorate narrowly approved in September 1992. | | | 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. | | | France is the ninth-largest trading partner of the United States. |
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| | The Militant - Vol. 69/No. 45 - November 21, 2005 -- front page |
| | Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin are vying for the party’s presidential nomination in the 2007 elections. | | | No affirmative action programs in employment, education, or housing exist in France, unlike the United States where such programs were won by Blacks and other oppressed nationalities, as well as women, as a result of the civil rights movement. | | | Using a 1955 law dating back to the French war against the anticolonial movement in Algeria, the French cabinet declared a 12-day state of emergency November 8, authorizing local officials to impose curfews, ban public meetings, and conduct police raids and searches for weapons. |
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| | CNN.com - Raffarin aide in prostitute arrest - Apr 23, 2004 |
| | Juppe, 58, received an 18-month suspended jail sentence after he was found guilty of wrongdoing in a scam in which Paris City Hall funds were used to pay political party allies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. | | | The incident follows several recent corruption scandals, culminating in January with the conviction of former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who heads President Jacques Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement. | | | And in February, a Paris court convicted and fined Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the spokesman for Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement party, in a trial over secret financing for the now-defunct Republican Party in 1996. |
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| | Popular movement party holds 9th congress, re-elects Laensar secretary general |
| | The Popular Movement party (MP) held its 9th congress in Rabat Friday and Saturday and unanimously re-elected Mohand Laensar as its secretary general. | | | Popular movement party holds 9th congress, re-elects Laensar secretary general | | | Click here if you are interested, or know someone who is. |
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| | CNN.com - Chirac unveils government shakeup - Mar 31, 2004 |
| | Sarkozy is the most popular politician in France, according to opinion polls, but his relationship with Chirac has been marred by Sarkozy's fierce presidential ambitions. | | | Additionally, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin will move to the post of interior minister with EU commissioner Michel Barnier to replace him, Chirac's office announced Wednesday. | | | Chirac was under pressure to overhaul his government in the wake of a severe beating administered to the ruling Union for Popular Movement in weekend regional elections. |
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| | France prepares to vote on EU constitution - INQ7.net |
| | Seeking to pre-empt voter temptation to cast a protest vote on Sunday against his unpopular center-right government, Chirac said he would give his administration a "new impetus" after May 29, hinting at a cabinet reshuffle. | | | PARIS - France goes to the polls on Sunday for a historic referendum on the EU constitution, one that could send shockwaves through the country and the European Union if voters reject the treaty as predicted. | | | Chirac's ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is campaigning alongside its junior partner in government, the Union for French Democracy (UDF), as well as the opposition Socialist party (PS) and the Greens. |
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| | Will France Say Non to the EU Constitution? |
| | Passage of the treaty had seemed a shoo-in for then-President Francois Mitterrand, who watched the treaty eventually pass by a meager one percent. | | | Conflicting polling data make it hard to judge current popular support of the constitution in France. | | | Even members of Chirac's own Union for Popular Movement (UMP), which largely supports the constitution, has created a "Group for a confederation of the states of Europe" that opposes the proposed constitution. |
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| | FRANCE: Blow dealt to capitalists' EU project |
| | By a 55% majority, French voters rejected the draft constitution for the 25-country European Union in a national referendum held on May 29. | | | The decisive “No” vote occurred despite the “Yes” campaign having the support of all of France’s mainstream parties, from President Jacques Chirac’s centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) to the centre-left Greens. | | | The constitution was intended to replace the 1993 Maastricht treaty, which had brought the European Union into being. |
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| | News @ Serbian Unity Congress Popular Movement of Kosovo pledges to strive for union with Albania, KosovaLive, ... |
| | According to him, if the LPK wins the election then, immediately after the constitution of the Kosova Assembly, it will put to the vote a resolution on the declaration of Kosova as an independent and sovereign state, a petition signed by 46,000 citizens on the Albania-Kosova union and the law on martyrs and war veterans. | | | The Popular Movement of Kosova (Kosovo) (LPK) launched its election campaign in Prishtina today with calls to citizens to vote for number 59 on the ballot paper and added that "those who give their votes to this party will empower themselves for building the state of Kosova". | | | Presenting his party's programme, (LPK chairman) Emrush Xhemajli said that the LPK was entering the election under the motto "Together towards Albania-Kosova union" and that his party would strive for a strong Kosova with a stable economy. |
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| | Two years ago, the European Commission adopted the Lisbon Strategy, designed to make the European Union the world’s ... |
| | The test for Chirac’s reforms was the June election for the European Parliament, when his Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party was thoroughly drubbed. | | | Fortunately for Chirac, he does not have to stand for election again until 2007, but the leadership of the UMP is expected to fall to popular Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. | | | Threatened by the impending flight of jobs abroad, German unions have had no leverage in contract negotiations. |
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| | France: Government parties routed in regional elections |
| | The government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac suffered a devastating defeat in the second round of regional elections held on Sunday, March 28. | | | The president initially founded the UMP during the presidential elections of 2002 to assemble the diverse forces of the right wing behind him. | | | Before the elections, these parties controlled a total of 14 regions. |
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| | Head of Chirac's Party Resigns |
| | Juppe, one of Chirac's closest allies, was convicted earlier this year in a corruption case and had agreed to step down from the leadership of the Union for a Popular Movement. | | | Sarkozy has made no secret of his ambition to succeed Chirac as president of France in 2007 — whether Chirac seeks another term or not. | | | France's political class was eagerly awaiting Sarkozy's address, which came two days after Chirac publicly scolded the popular minister and laid bare tension between the two. |
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| | americas.org - Unionists Ordered Arrested |
| | On October 29 a criminal court in the Honduran province of Francisco Morazán issued arrest orders against 28 members of the teachers’ union and the Popular Bloc workers’ movement for alleged responsibility for damages and injuries during demonstrations outside the Congress building in Tegucigalpa on October 24 and 25. | | | Those ordered arrested include Popular Bloc President Carlos Reyes and Eulogio Chávez, president of the Association of Middle School Teachers of Honduras (COPEMH). | | | COPEMH members began a 48-hour strike on October 30, and some 12,000 teachers joined Popular Bloc members that day in a another demonstration in Tegucigalpa to press teachers’ demands, reject the planned privatization of public services, and protest the arrest orders issued against their leaders. |
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| | Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | (1934–2002), Angolan politician, born in Portuguese Angola, on Aug. 3, 1934; studied medicine at University of Lisbon in Portugal; doctorate in political science at University of Lausanne, Switz.; in 1966 formed National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which fought successfully against Portuguese colonial rule; throughout 1970s and 1980s waged guerrilla... | | | Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola -- Encyclopædia Britannica | | | "Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola." Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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| | A French leader with an American dream - The Washington Times: World - September 14, 2004 |
| | His political appeal, in any case, lies largely with younger voters who are more receptive to American popular culture. | | | Sarkozy almost certainly will be chosen as the chief of the ruling party, the Union for a Popular Movement, in a ballot of the party's legislators in late November. | | | The 71-year-old leader has never concealed his desire to prevent his former protege from becoming his successor, even assigning him the toughest jobs in an effort to undermine his popularity. |
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| | Chirac Shores up Support for Constitution Europe Deutsche Welle 15.04.2005 |
| | French President Jacques Chirac urged a skeptical electorate to support the European constitution, warning that a 'no' vote would make Paris the "black sheep" of the European Union. | | | Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) supports the constitution, as does its ally in government, the Union for French Democracy (UDF). | | | Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: EU symbol over European Convention logo and Draft Treaty on Constitution for Europe, partial graphicThe constitution, which aims to streamline decision-making in the expanded 25-member European Union, must be ratified by all member states. |
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| | Chirac names critic of Iraq war - The Washington Times: World - June 01, 2005 |
| | French President Jacques Chirac yesterday named close ally Dominique de Villepin, a sharp critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, as his new prime minister, two days after voters delivered the government a humiliating setback over a proposed new European Union constitution. | | | Chirac also yesterday named Nicolas Sarkozy, leader of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, to a Cabinet post as well. | | | Chirac has described the new prime minister as like a son to him. |
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| | Indymedia UK - Oaxacan Popular Power Movement Culminates in the Capitol |
| | The prevention of Cuitlahuac Santiago Espinoza from taking office as mayor because of the fraud that gave him the election. | | | In Putla de Guerrero, Oaxaca, a popular movement against the corruption and violence of their mayor operating with the compliance of the state government unites politically diverse groups to empower the populace. | | | Oaxacan Popular Power Movement Culminates in the Capitol |
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| | Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 4, Number 4 |
| | It would be a fault," President Jacques Chirac reportedly told the closed-door cabinet meeting. | | | His conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), has a large parliamentary majority that is expected to approve the measure, even though some party members have expressed their reservations. | | | Copyright 2005 by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union. |
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| | The new center-left government in the Federal District, led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, declared October 2 a day of mourning. | | | The proliferation of urban popular movements and social movements, some with a Maoist inflection. | | | Originally published (with the title: 'The Many Meanings of 1968') in the fall-winter 1998 issue of Enfoque, a publication of the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. |
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| | The governing Union for a Popular Movement party holds its annual congress, and the issue of who will replace Former prime minister Alain Juppé as leader on the center-right party is the most contentious item on the agenda. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Latest News - More Chirac Allies Convicted of Money Laundering |
| | Former French defence minister and former Republican leader Francois Leotard was given a 10 month suspended prison term by the Paris court for having financed the party with “false loans” in 1996. | | | Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, spokesman for Chirac’s Union for a Popular Movement, was fined £10,000 in a trial over secret financing for the now-defunct Republican Party in 1996. | | | President Jacques Chirac’s party spokesman was fined today for his part in a money-laundering scandal – the latest verdict to rattle the party. |
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| | French politician backs state funding for mosques The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | Sarkozy makes no secret of his presidential ambitions and could be one of Chirac's main rivals in elections in 2007 if the president seeks a third term. | | | Sarkozy's book and its headline-grabbing proposals underline the popular politician's rivalry with French President Jacques Chirac. | | | The proposal to modify a 1905 law banning state subsidies for religious groups is sure to spark debate in France, which cherishes its secular underpinnings. |
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| | Chirac reportedly in good condition - Europe - MSNBC.com |
| | Although Sarkozy has never hidden his presidential ambitions, choosing a candidate for an election is up to the party. | | | Opinion polls have shown his popularity near an all-time low, and some members of his conservative party are distancing themselves. | | | But Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said any speculation that health problems could stop Chirac from seeking a third term as president in 2007 is “irrelevant and disconnected from today’s reality.” |
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| | Talking Turkey - Will the European Union ever let a Muslim nation join their club? By Scott MacMillan |
| | French President Jacques Chirac supports Turkey's bid to join the club, but most of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement, does not. | | | Chirac now appears to have cast his lot with his popular finance minister and possible successor, Nicolas Sarkozy, who says the French people would need to decide in a referendum whether to admit Turkey. | | | Over in France, Le Figaro said the United States favors Turkish EU membership because it would be the surest way of destroying the union. |
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| | Cyprus a roadblock to union - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | GENEVA -- The European Union, beset by a constitutional crisis, is faced with diplomatic difficulties over Turkey's refusal to recognize the Greek Cypriot government in Cyprus. | | | Cyprus a roadblock to union - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper | | | Chirac reported also is concerned by the fact that his main power base, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, officially opposes Turkey's EU membership. |
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| | The French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party |
| | Nicolas Sarkozy—French president Jacques Chirac’s rival for leadership of the ruling conservative party, the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), and for candidacy for the 2007 presidential elections—has come out openly against his president’s approach in the campaign in favour of the European constitution in the referendum to be held on May 29. | | | This is his second major challenge to Chirac’s political outlook: a UMP national council in late 2004 supported Sarkozy against Chirac over Turkish entry into the European Union: a 90.8 percent majority voted to oppose Turkish membership. | | | The French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party |
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| | MSN Encarta - Chartism |
| | Chartism, important movement of popular protest in British history. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572660/Chartism.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Angola - The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola Angolan Information Resource |
| | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola | | | AllRefer.com - Angola - The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola | | | Thus, the MPLA's program, outlined in a policy document in the 1960s, avoided a stated commitment to socialism or Marxism-Leninism, but it clearly alluded to the movement's adherence to Marxist-Leninist principles and the Nonaligned Movement. |
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