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France's Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has shifted up an election gear by finally unveiling her campaign manifesto for the presidential election on April 22. In a long-awaited speech in front of 15,000 Socialist Party delegates in an exhibition centre near Paris, Royal announced a 100-point "presidential pact" including promises to increase the minimum wage, boost social housing, invest in renewable energy sources and "consolidate" the 35-hour-week. Socialists hope the proposals will revive Royal's flagging campaign and claw back voter support lost to her right-wing rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Images and soundbites. (c) 2006 AFP
