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...After its naval success against the Somali pirates, the French government called for the United Nations to create an international force to fight maritime piracy. French Prime Minister François Fillon said "France would naturally be ready to participate" in an UN-mandated force to "work to secure the waterways of this region...
...Outrage at the attack led Prime Minister François Fillon to order Kosciusko-Morizet to issue a public apology for the outburst or be fired if she refused to. Kosciusko-Morizet knuckled under on Wednesday night, though subsequent comments suggested her regret was less than entirely sincere. Other conservatives involved in the melee implied they, too, were neither ready to forgive nor forget. That's bad news for UMP forces...
...with Fillon and other leading conservatives adamant their municipal setback would not affect the mandate for sweeping reform got from voters just 10 months ago, some pundits accused the right of being intentionally autistic in ignoring Sunday's outcome. "Monsieur le Président, someone has to inform you: you lost these municipal elections, and badly," wrote Laurent Joffrin, editor-in-chief of the leftist daily Libération in his Monday editorial. "With a Soviet-grade excess of hypocrisy, your accomplices, spokespeople, and your Prime Minister have maintained the contrary, [but] this first vote held just 10 months after...
...Prime Minister François Fillon said it was "unwise to draw national lessons from those local elections," repeating his government's conviction that local contests did not reflect voters' disappointment with Sarkozy's reform drive. "As the President has promised, we'll continue these policies because it takes tenacity to reform our country, and because democracy demands we keep our promises...
...Fillon and his allies had a hard time denying that the center right took a thumping locally; some 20% of voters told pollsters they had cast ballots expressly to demonstrate opposition to Sarkozy and his cabinet's actions. The result was a victorious surge by France's left-of-center parties, led by the previously floundering Socialists. Leftist wrenched 40 cities from conservative incumbents, including 30 with 20,000 or more inhabitants; rightists nabbed just six from outgoing leftist administrations. In Paris, incumbent Socialist mayor Betrand Delanoë added eight points to his razor-thin margin of victory...