Fabius urges Socialists to drop Royal

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Series Details 18.9.06
Publication Date 18/09/2006
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Report of public debate among the Socialist Party's six 'virtual candidates' for the 2007 Presidential election in France in Lens on 16 September 2006. Laurent Fabius, France's patrician former prime minister turned Socialist party firebrand, launched a desperate campaign to rally the hard left to halt Ségolène Royal's seemingly irresistible rise, urging party members to ignore opinion polls and pick a presidential candidate with 'true left' convictions.

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