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...Socialist candidate and Avignon regular Martine Aubry grabbed headlines with proposals to increase the culture budget by 30-50 per cent, which were quickly challenged by the governing party....
...The office of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has vigorously denied new allegations that he took undeclared campaign cash from the heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune ahead of his 2007 election...
...Martine Aubry, leader of the opposition socialists, said there was a “serious crisis of confidence” in the government....
...“I saw a president of the republic who was speaking above all about himself rather than talking to the French people,” said Martine Aubry, the socialist leader....
...*Bonjour paresse: De l'art et de la nécessité d'en faire le moins possible en entreprise, Michalon The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard...
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