Word: boutiher
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn't so much for reform as for stopping Le Pen. But that doesn't mean it can afford to spin its wheels. "If this government sits and waits things out," he says, "it risks exhausting public patience, and finally...
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