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The Guardian"In the final seal of approval for President Nicolas Sarkozy from the French people, he appears to have won a crushing victory in today's parliamentary elections. He now has a massive endorsement for an ambitious and controversial programme of reforms.
The latest round of polls gave the right-wing president's party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a historic majority, with more than 65 per cent of the vote, paving the way for a summer of new laws and a potential winter of industrial discontent.
The UMP, the party which Sarkozy led until being elected president in May for a five-year term, now seems likely to have up to 450 of the 577 seats in the national assembly. The total will be boosted by a variety of small centre-right groups who will be parliamentary allies. It is set to be the biggest single parliamentary majority under the 49-year-old constitution of the Fifth Republic..."
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The size of the UMP's victory is shocking.
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