Word: devedjian
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...created the institution should simply be repealed. Most members of France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) agree, and have called for the statue to be struck from the books to give companies freedom to work longer hours at lower cost. Earlier in May, UMP president Patrick Devedjian expressed the longing of virtually all French conservatives by "forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour week". But in the face of ferocious reaction by labor leaders to that appeal and the applause it drew from UMP members, other conservatives were forced to quash the very suggestion. Indeed...
...Within hours of those comments, Patrick Devedjian, general secretary of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party called on Amara to cease "insulting majority legislators" - people, he noted with pointed contrast, who "are the ones who support the government...
...bell anyway, and it's rare that I'm not asked to stay." But now that he's presiding at the head of the table, the question is whether his hard-driving, often divisive style will serve France as well as it has served his stellar political career. Patrick Devedjian, a colleague of 30 years and a possible minister in the government Sarkozy will name after he assumes office on May 16, says France knows exactly what it's getting in Sarkozy. "The people voted for him because he had a clear and concrete message," he says. Sarkozy's taste...
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