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Kaczynski, 59, was active in the anti-communist opposition since the 1970s and advised the Solidarity hero Lech Walesa during the workers' strikes that led to the toppling of the communist regime in 1989. He later split with Walesa and was a co-founder of the rightist Law and Justice party with his twin brother, Jaroslaw. He resigned from the party when he became president in 2005 but continued to support...
...measure was intended to prod consumers to conserve energy and invest in greener cars and insulation, and raise $4.7 billion to $6.1 billion in new annual revenues to finance state-funded ecological investments. But what voters and rightist parliamentarians saw in it was one of the most visible examples of Sarkozy doing the opposite of what he'd promised when running for the presidency - and in this case, creating new taxes rather than cutting and eliminating as pledged. "Up till now, Sarkozy has led by saying 'I believe and I have decided,' and he's now being forced to modify...
...carbon tax had been plagued with troubles from the start - including the near refusal by rightist legislators to pass it until the Elysée whipped them into line in November 2009. A month later - just days before it was set to take effect - France's Constitutional Council struck the law down because it unlawfully applied measures to consumers while exempting French companies, by far the biggest carbon emitters. Sarkozy pledged to widen the measure to include businesses. But that only mobilized France's employers' lobby. With the voters finally having had their say, Sarkozy has decided to shelve...
...political fiefdom for more than 20 years. The right's lock on the area, they argue, means Jean's subsequent election as president of the conservative group in regional council was simply the work of officials loyal to Nicolas Sarkozy seeking to boost his son's career. That rightist domination within EPAD, opponents say, will similarly produce a pro forma election of Jean by people who view him as the second coming of his father - and the right's potential star in years to come. "This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," said Socialist legislator...
Indeed, resistance to the bill was so high among conservatives that leftist opponents seemed surprised when they weren't joined by enough rightist defectors to defeat it. "The Senate has been transformed into a kind of chamber of followers with only one liberty: the one to say yes," said Leftist Radical party Senator François Fortassin after the legislation eked through with a 165 to 159 score...