Sarkozy's party sees 'mandate' in election

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"French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party won 314 seats in the 577-seat French assembly in an election supporters said was a mandate for change.

"We are going to engage in renewal, we are going to experiment with new ideas, we are going to enhance the status of work, we are going to encourage talent and innovation, and we are going to free ourselves from the defeatism which is suffocating the republic," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said after the elections, which didn ' t deliver the landslide some had predicted for Sarkozy ' s party, the BBC reported. Tougher immigration laws, more tax cuts and longer jail sentences for repeat offenders are among the changes backed by the party."

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