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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Paris
09 March 2008
France's left made gains in the first round of local elections Sunday marked by a relatively1 high turnout. Lisa Bryant has more on the preliminary results from Paris.
Initial results by the CSA-Dexia polling agencies gave the Socialist2 and Greens 47.5 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for the ruling Union for a Popular Movement, or UMP.
The opposition3 Socialist Party appeared to have captured the lead in key French towns, including Rouen, Lyon and Rheims. But the center-right UPM party seemed to hold ground in several others, including Bordeaux and Angers. In Paris, popular Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe was surging ahead.
Elected seats in some 37,000 cities, towns and villages are up for grabs in the two-round election. Participation4 was fairly high, with more than 68 percent of eligible5 voters casting their ballots6.
Analyst7 Pascal Perrineau said the shift to the left was unmistakable.
Perrineau told France Info radio that the push to the left was confirmed - and that the right was far more vulnerable than it was during the last municipal elections, in 2001.
While local issues strongly marked the elections, pundits8 forecast voters also wanted to send a message to conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose ratings have plunged9 in the 10 months since he was voted into office.
An IPSOS poll found that one-third of the voters planned on expressing their displeasure with Mr. Sarkozy and his government.
The French president has kept an uncharacteristically low profile during the campaign. But he says the results will not sway his efforts to push through widespread and generally unpopular reforms.
The second round of the local elections takes place next Sunday.
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n.社会主义者;adj.社会主义的 | |
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adj.有条件被选中的;(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的 | |
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6 ballots | |
n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 );选举;选票;投票总数v.(使)投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 ) | |
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n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家 | |
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n.某一学科的权威,专家( pundit的名词复数 ) | |
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9 plunged | |
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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