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	French regional elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regional elections were held in France on March 21 and March 28, 2004.
		The results were a triumph for the parties of the left, led by the French Socialist Party (PS) in alliance with minor parties including the French Communist Party (PCF), the Left Radical Party (PRG) and the Greens (Les Verts).
		Since no candidate gained a majority in any region, a second round was held on March 28, in which only candidates who polled more than 10% in the first round were eligible to run (except in Corsica, where the threshold is 5%).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_regional_elections,_2004 (492 words)

	Elections in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There also are public elections for some non-political positions, such as those for the judges of courts administering labor law (tribunaux de prud'hommes), elected by workers and employers, or those for judges administering cases of rural land leases.
		However French politics display some tendencies characterizing a two-party system, in which power alternates between relatively stable coalitions, each being led by a major party: on the left, the French Socialist Party, on the right, the UMP and its predecessors.
		The voters are French citizens over the age of 18 registered on the electoral rolls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_France (599 words)

	Regional elections in France A defeat for the camp of the conservative government
		The latest regional election results have now confirmed that the image of a powerful and determined right wing that emerged in 2002 was nothing other than a trick of the senses.
		French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has been built up as a “law-and-order” man and “national cop.” Raffarin, who comes from the countryside, was presented as an alternative to the arrogant upstarts from France’s schools for the political elite.
		The results of the French regional elections reflect—as was the case in the latest Spanish parliamentary elections—a shift to the left in the working class.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/fran-m25.shtml (1882 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - Elections in France
		Elections are major events in the political life of the country.
		The conditions candidates must fulfil are the same for all elections except as regards the minimum age, which varies according to the mandate sought (they must be 18 to run for municipal councillor, 21 for regional councillor, 23 for National Assembly deputy or President of the Republic and 35 for Senator).
		French electors vote not only to choose their representatives at communal, departmental, regional or national level, but also on occasion in referenda.
	www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/elections_france.asp (330 words)

	French Reactions to the 2000 US Presidential Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By European standards, the French response to the 2000 election in the United States was relatively balanced.
		The French have shown themselves wary of an election decided in the courts because it is perceived as a threat to democracy.
		First, the French media had difficulty understanding why the election results could not be tabulated on the night of the election, as they commonly are in France.
	www.brook.edu /fp/cusf/analysis/uselections.htm (1903 words)

	TCS Daily - Old Europe, Looking Older
		The recent French regional elections were a Berezina for Jacques Chirac's new party, UMP (labeled center Right but in fact center Left), which was routed for having done nearly nothing.
		In the meantime, before the French elites and their foreign socialist counterparts, with the help of the United Nations, were able to convince the world to build a communist planet, France is collapsing "alone" with other socialist countries.
		French elites, in their typical bad faith, repeat that it is not such a problem since the US deficit is a little higher (5 percent).
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=040704A (1608 words)

	UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Elections
		The legislative branch of Morocco underwent a significant transformation from a unicameral to a bicameral institution in 1996.
		In August 1997 the existing parliament passed laws concerning the organization and election for the two new bodies, and later in the same year King Hassan II announced that elections for the two new chambers would be held in the last months of 1997.
		The French President Jacques Chirac and the Spanish minister of foreign affairs publicly praised the honesty and transparency of the elections.
	www.pogar.org /countries/elections.asp?cid=12 (907 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- French cast ballots in regional elections in test of government strength
		The two-round regional elections are widely viewed as a gauge of support for the governing team.
		Jacques and Bernadette Chirac voted in the central Correze region, where they own a chateau and where the first lady is seeking her fifth term as head of the couple's canton, Sarran.
		The winner could be determined by an abstention rate that risks surpassing the record 42 percent in the 1998 regional elections, or by votes cast for the National Front or extreme left parties simply to show displeasure with the government.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040321-0904-france-elections.html (786 words)

	Chirac and Raffarin suffer a crushing defeat in regional elections
		These elections in France, like the recent events which have shaken Spain in recent weeks, are further proof of the growing social and political instability of the present epoch.
		This is the background to the spectacular and historically unprecedented landslide for the left in the recent elections.
		This election victory was an extension of the strike movement in the preceding period, and it will serve in turn to reinforce the morale and the fighting spirit of the workers in the trade union struggles which lie ahead.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/french_elections0304.html (1535 words)

	FRE 2720 Spring-Summer 2004 -- Stivale Watch Log
		Hence, the final pair in the election was the incumbent president, the conservative Jacques Chirac, versus the proto-fascist, Holocaust-denying, and anti-immigrant Le Pen (to the embarrassment of the French).
		This is understandable, given the French focus on the power of l'État first, over any kind of control by a super-power (in the sense of being over the State autonomy), over any kind of control by a super-power (in the sense of being over the State autonomy).
		The conclusion being drawn from these elections is that the voters who did go to the polls did so as a way of stating their skepticism, if not outright disapproval, in the EU, not voting for, but against it.
	www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/Courses/FRE2720W05/WatchlogSS.html (2529 words)

	IDABC - FR: E-voting tested during French regional elections
		While six of these municipalities are carrying out e-voting tests during the regional elections on 21 and 28 March, the only legally binding electronic votes are being cast in the city of Brest, the French pioneer in terms of electronic voting.
		Once the elections are closed, the memory card and a print-out of the machine's vote count are physically transferred to a central location were all vote results are controlled and aggregated.
		Turnout in Brest was up by 3% compared to the last regional elections held in 1998, but this increase is in line with the higher turnout observed throughout the country.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/2314/358 (532 words)

	CHALLENGING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the run-up to the 2004 French regional elections it was therefore not surprising that a new LO-LCR alliance should have been taken seriously.
		The results, which saw LO and the LCR lose all their regional counsellors, was widely described as a swingeing failure for their strategy.
		Yet underneath this the 2004 Regional elections demonstrate the limits of a resolutely anti-social democratic current in French society.
	www.movementsforsocialism.com /challenging_social_democracy.htm (2512 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Led by the Socialist Party (PS), the French left won the elections Sunday in 21 of 22 regions, obtaining 50 percent of the national vote.
		In the Pays de la Loire region in the centre of the country, social affairs minister Francois Fillon responsible for privatisation of the pension system and for cuts in state support for the long-term unemployed, lost the election to a socialist candidate.
		Both the right-wing French government and the SPD-Green ruling coalition in Germany are putting in place similar programmes -- partial privatisation of the pensions system and of health insurance, heavy cuts in the state aid for the long-term jobless, substantial reduction of taxes for business and the high income classes, and easing of dismissal procedures.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=23067 (868 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Rout of the right
		French President Jacques Chirac is safely ensconced in office until 2007.
		French newspapers were quick to reflect the mood.
		In January 2004 Alain Juppe, leader of Chirac's UMP and former French premier, was convicted of involvement in corrupt party funding arrangements.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/685/in3.htm (767 words)

	USATODAY.com - Chirac's government take beating in French regional elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PARIS (AP) — French voters delivered a stinging defeat to President Jacques Chirac's government and its program of painful economic reforms in regional elections Sunday that turned into a national vote of censure, exit polls showed.
		One of at least eight regions that exit polls estimated were lost by the government included Poitou-Charentes in western France, once Raffarin's fiefdom.
		Although voters Sunday were choosing regional councils that handle transport, school-building and other local issues, many cast their ballots to show disapproval of the government in Paris.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-28-france-elections_x.htm (738 words)

	USATODAY.com - Far right, left seen making big gains in French exit poll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The regional elections were widely viewed as a test of the government, and estimates confirmed predictions that Chirac's Union for a Popular Majority would be punished for France's economic and social woes.
		The National Front, which had 15% of the vote in regional elections six years ago, was not expected to win any of France's 26 regions — four of which are overseas.
		The Socialists were bolstered by the victory of their counterparts in Spain's general elections, which came days after the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid and reflected anger at the incumbent Spanish government's support for the war in Iraq.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-21-france-elections_x.htm (840 words)

	French Regional Elections - Americans in France
		Every six years in France there are regional elections.
		The regional councils are responsible for such government functions as urban development, education and tourism.
		There are two rounds of voting for the regional councils; each party or groups of parties will present a list of candidates for the first round.
	www.americansinfrance.net /culture/Regional_Elections_France.cfm (189 words)

	Will the French Muslim headscarf ban backfire?
		For Myard, 56, they're a threat to the principles of secularism and equality, raised as defining pillars of the French state during the blood-soaked revolution of 1789.
		French fears are generally reflected throughout Europe, where anti-immigration populist parties are on the rise and the headscarf is also an object of heated debate.
		He appointed the moderate Boubaker as its president, but when elections were held across the country to the council's regional posts, hard-line groups won 11 of 25 regions.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1093455/posts (2111 words)

	Alternative News Network, Cairns, tropical north Queensland, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The French also are aware of high "real" inflation -- on housing, food, public services -- and the decline of their purchasing ower.
		European statistics reveal a decline in the French standard of living that dropped from 3rd to 12th place among EU countries in just ten years.
		But as the French decline shows, the status quo is not sustainable in an evolving world.
	us.altnews.com.au /nuke/article.php?sid=6912 (1664 words)

	CNN.com - Abbas declared victor in Palestinian election - Jan 10, 2005
		The official election body, the Palestinian Central Elections Commission, said Monday that provisional poll results showed Abbas garnering 62.3 percent of the vote.
		The elections commission called the election results provisional because of a large number of complaints and doubts about the accuracy of the voter registry, but regional and international leaders praised Sunday's balloting as paving new ground in the Arab world.
		Palestinian leaders called the elections the most transparent in modern Arab history, and international observers said they could be the first truly democratic Arab elections.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/01/10/palestinian.elections/index.html (866 words)

	Senator Steve French
		Senator French is an investment and insurance specialist, concentrating in the areas of estate planning, asset protection, and wealth creation.
		After the 1992 election cycle, Senator French established a political consulting company, where he worked on numerous legislative, judicial and federal campaigns before retiring upon his election to the Alabama Senate in 1998.
		Senator French served as the Organizational Chairman for the George W. Bush for President Campaign in 2000, and the 6th Congressional District chairman for the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign.
	www.legislature.state.al.us /senate/senators/senatebios/sd015.html (371 words)

	Chirac's party braces for voter backlash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chirac's party braces for voter backlash in French regional elections
		Polls predict drubbing for Chirac's ruling party in French regional elections
		French PM Raffarin's fate in the balance after centre-right regional rout
	www.ttc.org /cgi-binloc/searchTTC.cgi?zopstory+16365 (363 words)

	French Politics - Abstract of article: The 2004 French Regional Elections: Politico-Economic Factors of a Nationalized ...
		French Politics - Abstract of article: The 2004 French Regional Elections: Politico-Economic Factors of a Nationalized Local Ballot
		In this paper, using a Political Economy model (pooled time series), we show that voting behavior at regional elections in France is dominated by national factors.
		At the 2004 regional elections, the contest was marked by the government's economic and political performance, the new electoral rules, the first time the Left had been in opposition at the time of a regional election and the mid-term nature of the election.
	www.palgrave-journals.com /fp/journal/v3/n2/abs/8200078a.html (146 words)

	French Regional Elections 2004 - Americans in France
		French Regional Elections 2004 - Americans in France
		In March of 2004 there were elections for regional councils in France.
		For a Complete list of election results see - Élections régionales 2004.
	www.americansinfrance.net /Culture/Regional_Elections_2004.cfm (77 words)

	FRANCE: Government hammered in regional elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The verdict in the first round of the French regional elections on March 21 was unambiguous.
		This was less than Le Pen got in the presidential election in 2002, but slightly up on the last regional elections in 1998.
		However, with no more elections until 2007, the government has already announced the next instalments of its “reform program” — privatisation of gas and electricity, and “reform” of the labour laws and the health insurance system.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/577/577p16c.htm (515 words)

	Finland, France, and Europe
		Dealing with la Grande Nation, I said "The book was written before the recent French regional elections, in which the left swept the board, with only Alsace remaining in pro-Chirac hands.
		The problem is that, as in Germany, the French electorate will not accept a cut in its social welfare system in the name of competitiveness.
		Lapland is the region from the Norwegian coast to the White Sea inhabited by the Lapps, and even today they follow the migratory reindeer herds regardless political borders.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Europe/europe_finlandfrance.htm (1531 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PARIS, February 14 (IslamOnline.net) - Crying foul over meager representation for the upcoming regional elections, French Muslim immigrants in several parties are championing a "civic rights movement," with a new study indicating "very serious failings" in the country’s integration policy over the past 30 years, reported The Guardian on Friday, February 14.
		A recent study by two university sociologists indicated that immigrants of North African origin held just seven seats on local and regional councils around France, and there were none in the national assembly.
		Analysts believe that up to 40 Socialist regional councilors of immigrant origin should be elected, the paper said.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2004-02/14/article04.shtml (732 words)

	F1 News > Electoral disaster will not hurt French Grand Prix - Grandprix.com
		The French Grand Prix was saved last winter by the intervention of the regional government, led by republican Jean-Pierre Soisson after the socialist Conseil General of the Nievre, which oversaw the race, pulled the plug on the event after two years of losses.
		At the weekend Soisson, a major player in local politics since the 1960s, suffered a heavy defeat in the French regional elections but the race should be safe as socialist leader Michel Neugnot said that he is in support of the event.
		All but one of the 21 French regions are now controlled by socialists.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns12676.html (247 words)

	FRENCH REGIONAL ELECTIONS
		Not one of the 19 government ministers who headed the right's regional election lists won.
		The French right claimed victory – but in the first round of the presidential elections they in fact had a majority of just 2% over the socialists.
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	www.jeremyjosephs.com /french_regional_elections.htm (1676 words)

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