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1/20/07

EiTB24: French Socialist presidential candidate Royal suspends spokesman


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Ségolène Royal suspended her spokesman for a month after he made a joke about her partner, Socialist party leader Hollande.French Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal suspended her spokesman for a month on Thursday after he called her partner, party leader Francois Hollande, her biggest handicap. The move capped a bad week for Royal who has been hit by a series of poor opinion polls, a controversy over her tax returns and growing discontent in the Socialist party over her unorthodox campaign style.

"It is true that there is this period of tension. That is normal. Why? Because I am changing politics and I embody this change," a defiant Royal told France 3 television.

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