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French president faces uneasy alliance
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PARIS (AP) — Making a quick
change of command, President
Jacques Chirac handed the premier
ship Monday to former opposition
leader Lionel
Jospin, whose f ■■■■■■■■
Socialists routed
Chirac’s conserv
atives in a stun
ning parliamen
tary upset.
Both Chirac
and Jospin were
tight-lipped
about how they
will share power
and battle the
record unem
ployment that led
to the right’s
downfall in Sun
day’s vote. Ques
tions also remained over whether
Communists will join the Socialists
in a coalition government.
A poll today confirmed job cre
ation was the top priority for French
voters, who overwhelmingly cited
Jospin’s promised job program for
young people as their chief demand.
The French
elected us to succeed,
but they also know
the road will be
difficult.”
Daniel Vaillant
Socialist Party
That and other Socialist cam
paign promises would reverse the
conservatives’ budget-cutting mea
sures, which aimed to boost the pri
vate sector and
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ qualify for the
euro. The Eu
rope’s single cur
rency planned for
1999 is part of an
effort to turn the
15-nation Euro
pean Union into
an economic su
perpower.
“The New
Chance,’’ the
leftist daily Lib
eration said in a
headline Mon
day, after the left
swept the right
from power. Chirac had miscalcu
lated in calling the vote 10 months
early, hoping to save his crumbling
majority in Parliament.
Monday began with Chirac’s
loyal lieutenant, Premier Alain
Juppe, submitting his resignation
at the president’s Elysee Palace,
giving the news media only a tight-
lipped smile.
When the left took an early lead
in the first round of voting on May
25, France’s most unpopular pre
mier in 40 years promised to re
sign after the second round. But it
was not enough for the right to
survive: Voters fired him before he
could quit.
Barely two hours after Juppe’s
ouster, his Socialist rival walked up
the palace steps to take power. A
jubilant Jospin, talking to re
porters on the steps, called his
meeting with Chirac “excellent."
The 59-year-old Socialist said
he will form a new government
“quickly, within the week,’’ half
the time he is allotted to do so.
He did not elaborate, but he
faces the tough task of forming a
diverse, leftist coalition that can
keep his promises.
The Socialist Party’s No. 2 leader,
Daniel Vaillant, appeared to be trying
to temper high expectations.
“The French elected us to suc
ceed, but they also know the road will
be difficult,” Vaillant told RTL radio.
The Socialists won 252 seats,
short of the 289 needed for a ma
jority. They’ll need to gather sup
port from among the Commu
nists, who won 38 seats;
independent leftist parties with
16; and environmentalists with
seven. The former governing cen
ter-right coalition won 243 seats.
The far-right National Front of
Jean-Marie Le Pen took only one
seat but played the spoiler, draw
ing votes from the center-right. Le
Pen himself stayed out of the par
liamentary election for the first
time in three decades.
While Communist leader Robert
Hue has expressed hostility toward
the sell-off of state industries and the
euro currency, he sounded concilia
tory Monday. Jospin has said he
would not block existing privatiza
tions and that he backs the euro,
though not at the cost of jobs.
Under French law, Chirac must
wait a year to call elections again,
and will otherwise govern in a split
government with a leftist National
Assembly until the next scheduled
elections in 2002.
Election results*-
Official results of the
June 1st French election
Seats won ...
Left alliance
Ind.
left
21 Nat. Front - 1 non-affiliated -1 14*
A party or coalition of parties needs at least 289 seals,,
to form a majority in the 577-seat National Assem
Percent of popular vote...
Rally for the Republic (RPR)
Union of French Democracy (UDF)
Independent Right
2.4, |
Socialist Party
40|p
Communist Party
3,8’:
Ecologists
'I
2.1
Independent Left
National Front
5,7
Remaining votes were split among minor parti«|
Voter turnout: 71.1% . 1
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tes were running.
form, which won 52 seats during its
first national campaign in 1993, tried to ex
pand its support with suggestions that Chre
tien and other mainstream leaders have
spent too much energy trying to defuse sep-
—ist sentiment in Quebec.
form’s leader, Preston Manning,
denounced as an anti-Quebec bigot
by several of his rivals, including Jean
Charest, whose Progressive Conservative
) Party was battling with Reform for right-
of-center votes.
The Progressive Conservatives, reduced
to just two seats in the 1993 election, fared
well in the Maritimes, winning at least 13
seats. The Other big winner there was the
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Nigerian warships attack;
military coup headquarter
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Nigerian
warships bombarded the port capital of Free
town on Monday, pounding away at the head
quarters of the leaders of a week-old military
coup. At least seven people died in the attack
and fighting onshore.
Mutinous troops responded by taking aim at
the beachfront Mammy Yoko Hotel, where hun
dreds of Nigerian troops sent in to back the oust
ed government have set up a command post.
Hundreds of frightened foreigners cowered
in the basement of the hotel after Nigerian gun-
ships off the coast started firing toward the coup
headquarters in the former defense headquar
ters a few miles inland.
“We’ve been attacked by the Sierra Leonian
soldiers,” said one hotel guest, who refused to
give his name. “The Nigerians are trying their
best, but they’re running out of ammo.”
He said six Nigerian solders had been
wounded.
Low-ranking troops in Sierra Leone’s dis-
grunded military ousted the elected president
on May 25 in the West African country’s third
coup in five years.
Nigeria — the chief power in the region —
bolstered its military presence in Sierra Leone
over the weekend to fry to pressure coup lead
ers to surrender power, then launched a suiprise
offensive Monday.
The attack appeared timed to follow the
weekend evacuation of most Westerners
and came after the coup leader, Maj. John
ny Paul Koroma, made clear he had no in
tention of giving up.
On Sunday, Koroma named a 20-man ruling
council to govern the country, a sign that diplo
matic attempts to restore President Ahmed Te-
jan Kabbah to power had failed.
Some of the foreigners evacuated earlier
from the hotel arrived Monday in neighboring
Guinea, including an American woman who
managed to get 18 orphans out of Freetown on
U.S. military helicopters.
“It was just awful. It was terrible,” said the
woman, Pinkie McCann-Willis, who heads
Freetown office of the Indianapolis-basi
Americans for African Adoption agency, a'
McCann-Willis said she and the child™
spent two days pinned down by gunfire in the*
Freetown compound before she was able to pile
the children into the back of her pickup trucl
and make a dash for the Mammy Yoko.
Once there, McCann-Willis obtained State
Department permission to carry the non-Amen
ican orphans out on evacuation choppers. In #1
the U.S. helicopters carried 1,200 foreigners
from the hotel grounds over the weekend.
At least one shell fired by the mutineersfi'offl j
their hilltop headquarters hit a house in the Ab
erdeen neighborhood between the rebels’ ari
Nigerians’ strongholds.
At the Connaught Hospital, the main govt
ernment hospital in central Freetown, thq
bodies of two women and a child from Ab
erdeen were brought to the morgue. Itwl
unclear whether they had died from shra*
nel or bullet wounds.
A hospital official interviewed by Siena Leon
ian journalists said four other people had die!
of bullet wounds east of the city, near the site |
earlier skirmishes.
The Nigerian offensive appeared to surprisS
other countries involved in efforts to negotiag*
Koroma’s exit and tire return of Kabbah, who ft
to Guinea after the coup. |
“We have all along insisted on a negotiati
settlement. This morning’s attack came asasur
prise,” said Foreign Minister KwamenaAhwoii
Ghana, which sent soldiers into Freetown ovi
the weekend both to stabilize the situational!
to evacuate about 1,000 Ghanaian civiliaL
trapped there.
In Washington, White House spok
Mike McCuny said the United States was "in
terested in diminishing the violence.”
“We are supporting efforts to deal directly
with the parties, both factions, rebel factions,)
encourage the institution of a cease-fire,” Me;
Curry said.
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