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By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyHe's captivating. He's tough. And he loves a challenge. But all that may not be enough to save President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as he fights for his political life amid a burgeoning campaign finance scandal. At issue is whether Sarkozy accepted illegal cash donations to his 2007 presidential campaign from Liliane Bettencourt, the French heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and the world's third-richest woman. A former accountant to Ms. Bettencourt has asserted that Sarkozy regularly received cash payments from the heiress and said on one occasion, his campaign was given a cash donation of some ...
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By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIf you followed the press coverage of this month's general elections in the United Kingdom, you're likely to come away with the sense that we just witnessed a watershed moment in this country's political history. But were these elections really historic? And if so, why? There's no question that there was a lot of drama packed into the brief, four-week election period that ended on May 6. It saw the first-ever televised political debates between the three main party leaders. Nick Clegg became a household name. And in the end, because no one party secured a majority, two political parties ...
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