President Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a bruising defeat in the last round of France's regional elections on Sunday, with his centre-right party losing in all but one of the 22 mainland regions. Some cabinet ministers are likely to be reshuffled as a consequence.
The Socialist Party, Greens and other left-wing allies took some 54 percent of the vote at a national level, according to exit polls, leaving Mr Sarkzoy's Union du Mouvement Populaire(UMP) at just 36 percent, the centre-righ...
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