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...that Sarkozy's abrasive positions on issues such as immigration and the condition of France's squalid suburban housing projects had left even many who voted for him admitting they were "scared." Benam hopes that this will encourage the electorate, in June, to put the Socialists in control of parliament as a counterweight...
...That clash came to a head on May 1 when Turkey's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of elections in Parliament that would have made Gul President. Handpicked by his longtime ally Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul was ahead in the ballot, but the court, in a ruling that appeared to betray its secularist bias, upheld claims by Turkey's main secularist political party that the balloting was unconstitutional because a quorum wasn't present-no matter that the opposition engineered that shortfall by boycotting the vote, or that at least one President had previously been elected with...
...Turkey's economy limp from crisis to crisis, the party's economic reforms and fiscal discipline have fueled growth averaging 7% a year. It strengthened rights for the Kurdish minority and convinced the European Union to launch membership talks last year. Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the European Parliament who chairs an E.U.-Turkey delegation, says the party "has done more for the modernization of Turkey than all the secular parties in previous years. They were willing to open up the system, to challenge the élite...
...received visit to Turkey in November. But over the past few months back in Rome, there has been a steady flow of criticism of the now 80-year-old pontiff, much of which also relates to his rigid views on doctrine, such as his speaking out against an Italian Parliament bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. But perhaps the most visceral criticism came when the Church denied Catholic funeral rites to an Italian victim of Lou Gehrig?s disease, named Piergiorgio Welby, who had campaigned for euthanasia before dying when a doctor unplugged his respirator...
...courts are already overworked. Sarko resolutely opposes Turkish membership in the European Union; Sego says that France doesn't yet have to decide - and neither does she. Sarko wants to keep the basic institutions of France as they are; Sego wants to launch a 6th Republic with a stronger parliament...