Municipal French Elections Appear to Rebuke Sarkozy - Molly Moore and Corinne Gavard
Preliminary voting returns and exit polls indicated that Socialist candidates were outpolling members of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement for mayoral seats in key towns and were easily maintaining their power bases in Paris and Lyon, the country's third-largest city. Nine months after his inauguration as president, Sarkozy has become such a liability to his own party that most candidates from his party shunned his support in their campaigns and some stripped the governing party's labels from their Internet sites and campaign literature. Socialist leader Francois Hollande said voters Sunday sent "a warning to the president of the republic and the government on the policies conducted over the past nine months."
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