Pressure is mounting on French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to resign after another poor showing at the polls.
His centre-right UMP party was battered at the ballot box, scoring only 16.64 percent of the votes and securing just 18 MEPs.
By contrast, the opposition socialist party received almost 29 percent and will have 32 representatives in the new Parliament.
This electoral reverse follows another catastrophic defeat in the regional elections, held in March, whic...
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