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To: FaultLine who started this subject6/16/2002 6:05:18 PM
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Parliament Landslide for Chirac Swamps Left, Le Pen
Sun Jun 16, 5:54 PM ET
By John Chalmers

story.news.yahoo.com

[Another European election, another conservative government voted in.]

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac's center-right won a landslide parliamentary majority Sunday, turning the tables on the left and denying Jean-Marie Le Pen's anti-immigrant National Front any seats at all. ...

The victory of Chirac's camp marked the latest step in the mainstream right's advance across western Europe, where similar parties have ousted left-wing governments in Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal and may do so in Germany in September. ...
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