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...that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have been making inroads. But while his verbal bravado may raise eyebrows, Sarkozy has plenty of company. Across Europe, immigration policy - whether devised to control legal or illegal flows or the separate issue of political asylum...
...says. "This is not the time to talk about giving foreigners the right to vote. It's a time for rational and humane restrictions on immigration, and that's what Sarkozy is proposing." No question, then, that the spoiler of the 2002 presidential elections, National Front dinosaur Le Pen, is part of Sarkozy's calculations. Le Pen's personal popularity has shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat...
...that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have been making inroads. But while his verbal bravado may raise eyebrows, Sarkozy has plenty of company. Across Europe, immigration policy - whether devised to control legal or illegal flows or the separate issue of political asylum...
...says. "This is not the time to talk about giving foreigners the right to vote. It's a time for rational and humane restrictions on immigration, and that's what Sarkozy is proposing." No question, then, that the spoiler of the 2002 presidential elections, National Front dinosaur Le Pen, is part of Sarkozy's calculations. Le Pen's personal popularity has shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat...
...hole. Top to bottom, pretty good lineup.” Brunnig, who shuttled to the plate to take his third at-bat out of the designated hitter spot—he went 0-for-3—before returning to the pen to continue his warm-ups, entered the game in the eighth and also fell victim to the lethal Reynoso-Frates combination. The duo, which finished the day a combined 7-for-7 with seven RBI, strung together back-to-back singles to key a two-run rally. “They’re a good hitting team...