Word: constitutionnel
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...Corsican bill still has a long way to go to become law. The draft must pass the upper house of Parliament before facing the Conseil Constitutionnel - the guardian of France's Jacobin constitution. Corsican nationalists may also prove uncooperative if, as leader Jean-Guy Talamoni warns, the bill "isn't a modest start to what must be a much deeper, wider reform...
...when the trial ends on Feb. 13, Roland Dumas will not be judged for an affaire d??tat but for far more banal matters of the heart and the pocketbook. Whether or not he is found guilty, his career is finished?he was forced to resign from the Conseil Constitutionnel in 1999?and his reputation lies in ruins. For all his efforts to present himself as a political martyr, persecuted by enemies jealous of his ?brilliance,? Dumas could well face the heartbreak of dishonor in his final years...
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