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...negotiating overtime rules, unions have called for large protest strikes on June 17. But labor leaders aren't the only ones feeling hoodwinked on the issue. "The right is in the process of creating social policies of revenge against all the employees of this country," said Socialist legislator Henri Emmanuelli. Nor was dismayed reaction to Bertrand's text limited to the left of the political spectrum. Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employer's organization which is signatory to the agreements with unions, also disagreed with Bertrand's intended power play. "It was hardly a month ago that an accord...
...cohesion. But successive speakers also made it evident that the Socialist Party?like the French left in general?is split between market-friendly "modernizers," such as former Economy Ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, and harder leftists like former Employment Minister Martine Aubry and party heavyweight Henri Emmanuelli...
Into the void stepped three second- echelon pretenders: Jospin, 57; party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49; and flamboyant former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55. Though he was the most popular, Lang bowed out at the last minute, leaving the austere Jospin to fight it out with the more hard-line, proletarian Emmanuelli...
...Jospin appealed to the civil servants who make up an important part of the party's base; he also enjoyed the support of Rocardians, Delorists and others who hope to ``renovate'' the party by replacing its class-based ideology with a more modern, social democratic approach. The beetle-browed Emmanuelli, with his old-style leftist rhetoric, was more attractive to working-class voters and had the support of most party stalwarts, including former Prime Minister and longtime Jospin enemy Laurent Fabius. Emmanuelli's hold on the party machinery was so strong that many observers thought he had a lock...
...polls showed outgoing European Commission President Jacques Delors, a Socialist, well out in front. But Delors' decision not to run left the Socialists without a credible candidate. None of the announced hopefuls--former Education Minister Lionel Jospin, 57; former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55; and party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49--has a broad national following. As things stand, the Socialists might well be eliminated in the first stage of the two-round presidential contest on April...