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...opposition Socialists registered dramatic advances in the final round of country-wide municipal polling on Sunday evening, members of the French government claimed they hadn't heard the faintest note of voter disgruntlement. Despite a drubbing in towns and cities across France, officials in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet pledged they'd continue their reformist drive with even more energy than before...
...Israeli cabinet claimed that the construction had been planned for several years and therefore did not violate the tenets of 2003 U.S.-sponsored initiative, known as the 'Road Map', in which Israel agreed to freeze construction of new Jewish settlements. "This decision pre-dates the government," said Mark Regev, the prime minister's spokesman. But a chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Olmert's decision would undermine Washington's efforts to put the derailed negotiations back on track: "It seems to me the Israelis are determined to put a stick in the wheel of negotiations...
...Much of the settlers' fury was directed at Olmert and his cabinet for even agreeing to join in peace talks with the Palestinians. Olmert was warned off from visiting the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where the shootings occurred, and his leftist education minister Yuli Tamir, who went to pay her respects, was chased away with shouts of "traitor and murderer". Rabbi Yaacov Shapira, head of the seminary, made a speech on Sunday urging Israel not to give away "one clod of soil" to the Palestinians. The scene is hardly set for compromise...
...They delivered a stinging rebuke to Sarkozy's party and his conservative allies, who now face uphill battles against leftists in decisive run-off elections March 16. Just last summer, Sarkozy's party coasted to legislative election victory on the coattails of his presidential win; now, members of his cabinet are urging voters not to let their frustration with the national government determine the outcome of local contests...
...Former Prime Minister Alain Jupp?, for example, won the mayor's job in Bordeaux, just nine months after he suffered a stunning upset for the city's parliamentary seat - a loss that made him ineligible to serve in the national government. Fifteen of the 22 members of Fillon's cabinet of 33 who were on Sunday's municipal ballots either won first-round victories, or were in strong positions for the runoff. Still, the left appears to have done well by trading on the increasing unpopularity of President Sarkozy...