Opinion polls show that Hollande's Socialist Party will trounce Sarkozy's conservativeUMP in the elections.
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Sarkozy's conservativeUMP party also chimed in on Syria.
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The entire leadership of the conservativeUMP resigned over a financial scandal involving former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Socialists and the conservativeUMP are toughening their policies, in the hope of blunting the appeal of the anti-immigrant, far-right National Front.
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One lawmaker for France's conservativeUMP opposition party, which banned the wearing of full-face veils while in office, questioned the scheme's usefulness.
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The score was also a blow to the conservativeUMP, whose chairman Jean-Francois Cope is expected to face challenges to his leadership.
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The Socialist proposal has next to no chance of passing in the lower house of parliament, where Sarkozy's conservativeUMP has a majority.
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Sunday's second round of regional elections in France were a "disaster" for the ruling conservativeUMP party, wrote Serge July in.
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Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to win National Front voters over to his conservativeUMP with tough policies on national identity and immigration.
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The conservativeUMP won an estimated 21 per cent of the vote, the ruling socialist party 14.5 per cent.
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Did Jean-Francois Copé, the leader of the conservativeUMP party, overcharge then president Nicolas Sarkozy and impoverish the party to enrich his own friends?
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Voting began in the first round of France's legislative election today with President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservativeUMP party expected to strengthen its hold on power.
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The conservativeUMP meanwhile saw off a challenge to its rule in the port of Marseille, although the FN won in the city's seventh district.
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In the run-up to the first round of nationwide municipal elections on March 23rd, the conservativeUMP was buried in an avalanche of politico-financial scandals.
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Some 62 percent of conservativeUMP voters want to see Sarkozy run for the presidency in 2017, according to an Ifop poll published in September.