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...some quarters, the European Union is viewed as a conspiracy of French socialists. And indeed, France's Socialist Party (PS) has traditionally been one of the biggest boosters of the E.U. That's why the current polarizing battle within the PS over a referendum, scheduled for Dec. 1, to accept or reject the E.U. constitution is so puzzling. Last week, the standing-room-only crowd that packed the Centre Rabelais theater in the southern French city of Montpellier went wild as Socialist Party leader François Hollande and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn extolled the merits...
...Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own-a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous...
...other business, Council Treasurer Clay T. Capp ’06, along with Mahan and Secretary Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, introduced a bill to amend the council constitution and cement changes passed by a termbill fee hike referendum last spring...
...turn, will pick a Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The assembly's main job is to draft a constitution that will set permanent rules for Iraq's democratic system and usher in another round of voting by the end of 2005. The constitution must be put to a referendum by October. If it is rejected--and divvying up powers and rights among Iraq's jostling ethnic and religious factions will be extremely tricky--the whole process will start over again...
...Likud party, Sharon faces political threats. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly backed Sharon's disengagement bill in the Knesset but then said he'd resign in two weeks if Sharon didn't agree to put the entire plan to a national referendum. Briefly Netanyahu threatened to run against Sharon for the Prime Minister's job, though his aides backed off that remark...