PARIS, Jun 10 (AFP): The French are heading back to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday, less than a month after electing a new president.
Voting stations opened across France at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) for the first round of voting, with round two to be held next Sunday.
They close 12 hours later, with normally reliable result projections due out immediately.If his UMP party win the parliamentary elections, Sarkozy has promised to push through a raft of reforms including tougher sentencing rules, restrictions on immigration and more autonomy for universities.
Just a month after the presidential elections, voters are returning to the polls to choose the 577 members of the National Assembly from among 7,630 candidates.
French voters head to the polls to elect new parliament
FE Team | Published: June 11, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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