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VOICED: Big turnout as French left picks champion to face Sarkozy
VOICED: Big turnout as French left picks champion to face Sarkozy
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CLEAN: Francois Hollande heads back to campaign headquarters in Paris
Socialist challenger Francois Hollande beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday, with a resurgent far-right emerging as possible kingmakers in the run-off. Paris, France. (Footage by AFP/Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Paris mayoral candidate rides hot air ball
CLEAN : Paris mayoral candidate rides hot air ball
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VOICED : French Socialists open party conference
VOICED : French Socialists open party conference
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CLEAN : Bachelet returns to power in Chile pledgin
CLEAN : Bachelet returns to power in Chile pledgin
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CLEAN : Socialists decide Spain's political fate in showdown
Spain's embattled Socialists gather for a crunch strategy meeting expected to see the party lift its veto on a minority conservative government and finally unblock the country's ten month political deadlock
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CLEAN:GM Potatoes: French farmers slam EU decision
CLEAN:GM Potatoes: French farmers slam EU decision
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CLEAN : French socialists see little use in voting along party lines
When it comes to the upcoming presidential election voters in the traditionally left leaning Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois see their options raging from abstention to voting for the least-bad choice and for socialists this year voting...
Bloomberg
Hamon Leads French Socialist Vote in Primary
Jan.23 -- Former education minister Benoit Hamon emerged as the front runner in the French Socialist Party’s primary, boosting the presidential chances of independent candidate Emmanuel Macron who could benefit from Socialist...
Bloomberg
Candidates Make Final Push Before French Vote
Mar.23 -- Advisor to French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, Raquel Garrido, discusses the upcoming French elections. She speaks on "Bloomberg Markets."
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CLEAN : FILE/France: Le Roux replaces Cazeneuve as interior minister
Bruno Le Roux leader of the Socialists in France's lower house of parliament will take over the interior portfolio following Bernard Cazeneuve's appointment as the new prime minister as Manuel Valls resigns to pursue a presidential bid
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CLEAN : France: Le Roux takes over Interior Ministry from Cazeneuve
Bruno Le Roux leader of the Socialists in the lower house of parliament has been promoted to interior minister of France a post previously held by Bernard Cazeneuve who has replaced Manuel Valls as prime minister in a minor cabinet...
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VOICED : Habanos salvan un discreto 2016 para mercado de lujo en Cuba
Los fumadores de habanos desembolsaron 445 millones de dolares en 2016 un 5% mas que en 2015 beneficiando al mercado de lujo de la isla socialista
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CLEAN : Ecadorians to elect successor to President Correa
Around 12.8 million Ecuadorians will head to the polls on Sunday to designate a successor to socialist president Rafael Correa who has been in power since 2007 with crime and the economy on many peopleÂ’s minds
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VOICED : La generacion de lectores digitales en la Cuba off-line
Los cubanos recurren al intercambio de textos en formato digital para evadir el control del Estado socialista sobre los impresos en una Cuba con internet restringido y sin librerias actualizadas
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CLEAN : Spain's Socialist party in primary vote for new leader
Spain's bitterly divided Socialist party will choose a new leader in a party primary that may determine whether or not conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's minority government will last
Bloomberg
Macron Selects Edouard Philippe as French Prime Minister
May.15 -- French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen Edouard Philippe, mayor of the port city of Le Havre, as the nation's new prime minister. Bloomberg's Caroline Connan reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
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CLEAN : French Socialists tilt left pick Hamon as election candidate
French leftwinger Benoit Hamon clinches the Socialist nomination to run for president partial results show as a fresh scandal engulfed conservative election frontrunner Francois Fillon
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CLEAN : US volunteers collect medical supplies for crisis-hit Venezuela
Volunteers in south Florida are collecting medical supplies and necessities for Venezuelans suffering in a political and economic crisis under socialist Nicolas Maduro's rule
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CLEAN : French election: Melenchon rejects alliance with Hamon
French far left presidential candidate Jean Luc Melenchon refuses calls for an alliance with socialist candidate Benoît Hamon
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VOICED : URGENTE: Candidato oficialista Lenin Moreno voto en Ecuador
El exvicepresidente socialista Lenin Moreno del movimiento oficialista Alianza Pais (AP) voto el domingo en Ecuador en un balotaje que lo enfrenta al opositor de derecha Guillermo Lasso y que es visto como un test para la izquierda...
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CLEAN : Ecuador opposition candidate Lasso rejects vote result
Right-wing candidate Guillermo Lasso alleges fraud and vows to fight socialist Lenin Moreno's win in a runoff election that will extend a decade of leftist rule
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CLEAN : Socialist Hamon closes political campaign with minute silence
We will not give in says Benoit Hamon before leading a minute silence after Thursdays terrorist attack on the Champs Elysee in Paris during his final political rally in Carmaux (Tarn) the land of French socialist founder Jean Jaures who...
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CLEAN : Ecuador's Lenin Moreno celebrates electoral victory
Ecuador's socialist candidate Lenin Moreno celebrates as he holds a slim lead according to partial results over conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso in Ecuador's runoff presidential vote on Sunday setting up a tense wait for the final...