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The mayor had a brief victory in December when he was able to change an ordinance that finally allowed restaurants to serve on Sunday. Seven licenses were issued, and restaurants reported up to 20% increases in sales. But a local group filed suit challenging the ...
Yet to defeat their Ivy League rivals, both sides also know that they will have to rely on their training and improvements if they hope to pull out another double victory.
As always, it will be left to the voters to decide. According to early polls, it looks likely that pet lovers will prevail - a full 70% supported the initiative in a survey released in November. A victory, proponents would argue, for direct democracy.
Many observers saw the exercise as a political ploy - an effort by the conservative government to seduce extreme right-wing voters by fanning nationalist flames ahead of regional elections next month. Other critics said that while discussing French identity isn't objectionable in itself, people used the scores of open...
Nicolas Dupont-Aignon, a conservative parliamentarian and usually a supporter of right-wing causes, said that the initiative "completely escaped" the government's control. "The government poorly framed this debate from the outset and - for electoral objectives - spoke of national identity rather than national unity," he says. While the media...