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Sarkozy's party in line for huge parliamentary majority

June 10, 2007

President Nicolas Sarkozy's right wing party was headed for a landslide victory that would hand him a sweeping mandate to reform France, after the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday. One month after Sarkozy's presidential election victory over Socialist Ségolène Royal, his UMP party and its allies were projected to win up to 501 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly. A voiced report on the first round of the election.