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...regional campaigning with a referendum on reform, 42% of first-round voters said their ballots were cast in anger at the government. That hurt ump candidates with close governmental ties and earned Raffarin a personal rebuke: voters in his conservative-controlled home region of Poitou-Charentes massively backed a leftist list - headed by Ségolène Royal, Socialist leader François Hollande's partner. After initially looking stunned by the results, Raffarin rebounded with some defiant stump speeches meant to get across the message that reform is vital - and will continue. That message isn't going over...
...getting awfully lonely at the top for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Their austerity drives have angered voters, alienated supporters - and inspired the creation of new leftist parties to oppose reform. Since coming to power in 1998, Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has lost 125,000 members - 16% of the total - primarily because of the government's effort to cut back the welfare state. According to a recent Forsa poll published in Stern magazine, 64% of those surveyed think Schröder's reforms are wrong, and 76% find them...
...He’s probably the most right-wing speaker we get,” said Chambers. “He’s really the only one. Almost all of our speakers have been really leftist...
...dispatched 10,000 workers to inspect the nation's 20,000 miles of tracks. They found nothing. "We're still taking this extremely seriously because we know these people are very organized and intelligent," says a French security official. He says AZF's missives suggest it is an "extreme leftist, perhaps anarchist" group but stops short of calling it a terrorist outfit. Terrorists, he observes, make political demands and don't provide warnings of specific plots. "This seems like a new form of high-stakes extortion," he says...
...killed at least 200, Spain 's center-right Popular Party was expected to retain its hold on power in Sunday's general election. Where the left is still in power, all is not going well. Poland and Hungary elected leftist governments in 2001 and 2002 respectively; both are now at or near all-time lows in opinion polls. And while Britain 's Labour government seems safe for the moment, despite voter disaffection with Tony Blair, support for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party is ebbing away; last month it lost a key election in Hamburg...