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The verbal contest marked another chapter in the national decline of the organized left, leaving a largely spread playing field in the near future for Sarkozy and a union of Gaullist-oriented parties that regulate the legislative body as in a proper manner as the presidency.

The party’s unraveling at the top also seemed to augur longer-term difficulties for a movement that helped propel Fran

After counting and recounting all darkness, the alliance announced that Martine Aubry, the mayor of Lille who advocates close ties to labor unions, had won a bitterly fought election by 42 votes out of relating to 135,000 mould and would be the next first secretary. But her opponent in the second round of voting, former presidential candidate S

“There was fraud, there was cheating,” Manuel Valls, a member of Parliament and single of Royal’s chief lieutenants, said in a television interview. “I call for the association to rebel.”

The outgoing first secretary, Fran

But the unseemly split, on the heels of a party congress last weekend marked through rancor and discord, appeared to have already undermined the party’s standing in public opinion, strange to say among its own members.

The political commentator Alain Duhamel called it a “disaster,” and newspaper reports were filled of expressions of disappointment from party members.

“Everybody knows our party is not in good health,” Aubry acknowledged in a victory statement recently deceased Saturday.

An Internet commentator on the station of Le Monde newspaper, identifying himself as Jean T., called the result “a great victory for Sarko.”

Sarkozy made nay remark, but reports quoting his aides depicted him as reveling in the open battle.

To some interval, the reports said, Sarkozy has taken credit for nudging it along. He has given ministries and other posts to several Socialist figures, for instance, sowing distrust in the ranks.

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