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22 February 2003 Saturday 20 Zilhaj 1423
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Chirac faces pressure to change stance
By Our Correspondent
PARIS, Feb 21: French President Jacques Chirac is being hard-pressed these days to change the hardline French stance on Iraq, but the pressure is coming not so much from US President George W Bush , or such emissaries as Richard Perle, but rather from within the ranks of his own ruling UMP party.
The French president seems to have greater support among leftwing voters and the two principal parties - the socialists and communists - who represent them in the French parliament.
As for the French right, although a clear majority of political adherents say they support Mr Chirac's position on Iraq, many UMP parliamentarians say they would like to talk Mr Chirac into abstaining, rather than using France's veto, if ever a vote is held on a US resolution seeking the greenlight for an attack against President Saddam Hussein. Only last weekend, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin let it be known that he had been made to understand that a new US resolution was indeed being drafted.
UMP deputies have scheduled a parliamentary debate on Mr Chirac's Iraq policy, to be followed by a formal vote on Feb 26. The only parliamentarians expected to support wholeheartedly his policy during such a vote will undoubtedly be members of the Parti Socialiste and Parti Communiste Francais, perhaps even the extremist National Front, but hardly the UMP, said parliamentary sources.
The opposition within the UMP to Mr Chirac's overly tough anti-war policy has reached such a point that members of the executive committee of the UMP, headed by former prime minister Alain Juppe, have been letting the French media know that if ever they were to have their word to say in the matter, they would much prefer that Mr Chirac drop the idea of making use of the French veto if the United States, as is expected, decides to propose a Security Council resolution seeking the go-ahead for an attack against Iraq.
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22 February 2003 Saturday 20 Zilhaj 1423
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Chirac faces pressure to change stance
By Our Correspondent
PARIS, Feb 21: French President Jacques Chirac is being hard-pressed these days to change the hardline French stance on Iraq, but the pressure is coming not so much from US President George W Bush , or such emissaries as Richard Perle, but rather from within the ranks of his own ruling UMP party.
The French president seems to have greater support among leftwing voters and the two principal parties - the socialists and communists - who represent them in the French parliament.
As for the French right, although a clear majority of political adherents say they support Mr Chirac's position on Iraq, many UMP parliamentarians say they would like to talk Mr Chirac into abstaining, rather than using France's veto, if ever a vote is held on a US resolution seeking the greenlight for an attack against President Saddam Hussein. Only last weekend, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin let it be known that he had been made to understand that a new US resolution was indeed being drafted.
UMP deputies have scheduled a parliamentary debate on Mr Chirac's Iraq policy, to be followed by a formal vote on Feb 26. The only parliamentarians expected to support wholeheartedly his policy during such a vote will undoubtedly be members of the Parti Socialiste and Parti Communiste Francais, perhaps even the extremist National Front, but hardly the UMP, said parliamentary sources.
The opposition within the UMP to Mr Chirac's overly tough anti-war policy has reached such a point that members of the executive committee of the UMP, headed by former prime minister Alain Juppe, have been letting the French media know that if ever they were to have their word to say in the matter, they would much prefer that Mr Chirac drop the idea of making use of the French veto if the United States, as is expected, decides to propose a Security Council resolution seeking the go-ahead for an attack against Iraq.
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© The DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2003