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Wide shot of Socialist Party headquarter in Paris 2. Various of people watching TV3. Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande entering the room and being cheered by supporters4. Hollande shaking hands with supporters5. Hollande on...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide shot of Socialist Party headquarter in Paris \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of people watching TV\u003cbr/\u003e3. Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande entering the room and being cheered by supporters\u003cbr/\u003e4. Hollande shaking hands with supporters\u003cbr/\u003e5. Hollande on podium\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Hollande, Socialist Party Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In this regional and cantonal elections with a strong participation, they (the voters) have sent a clear message to all the political leaders.  Initially, and this is justice, they expressed a strong sanction against Jean-Pierre Raffarin''s government.  They''ve rejected a policy that for the last two years was against equality, accentuated the social tensions and despised the weaker.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway journalist\u003cbr/\u003e8. Supporters applauding\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (French) Voxpop, Socialist Party activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We came to support the left and we are very happy and we would like to see Raffarin''s face, we want to see that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (French) Voxpop, Socialist Party activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Same, I want to support the all. We were very active and it''s a reward for the MJS (Movement of Young Socialists). We have been distributing leaflets, talking to people. It''s a big relief.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various shots of people watching TV\u003cbr/\u003ePool - APTN Clients Only\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Prime Minster:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It''s necessary as well to look at the national impact of these results. The government started new action two years ago. The authority of the state was re-established. We put a stop to a lack of security. We reformed pensions. A few months ago the unemployment level has been stabilised. It''s not enough, I know. French men and women said it clearly today. Our action has to be more efficient, fairer. But the changes will still take place but it''s not forbidden to remember that what has been achieved in the past two years had not been done in the previous five years. I am sure that the French people won''t run away from the path of reform. The reforms must continue simply because they are necessary.\"      \u003cbr/\u003eAPTN - APTN Clients Only\u003cbr/\u003e13. Exterior of UMP (Union of Popular Movement)\u003cbr/\u003e14. People inside UMP headquarters\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (French) Voxpop, UMP activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It''s like a cold shower. Unfortunately it''s is due to the current policies, the reform policies. The French people didn''t understand that these reforms are essential for France. They sanctioned a government that should not have been sanctioned because these are regional elections.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various shots of people watching results on TV\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close-up results on TV screen\u003cbr/\u003e18. People sitting in UMP headquarters\u003cbr/\u003eFrance''s opposition left bulldozed its way across France in regional elections, crushing the governing right of President Jacques Chirac and setting the stage for a Cabinet shakeup.\u003cbr/\u003eSunday''s victory march by the reborn Socialists left the conservative president standing alone with a losing team\u003cbr/\u003eand an unpopular party midway through his five-year term.\u003cbr/\u003eWhether Chirac retains Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to head a new team appeared a less pressing question than\u003cbr/\u003ehow to proceed after the government changes are made.\u003cbr/\u003eThe election results jolted the political landscape at its heart and amounted to an angry cry to the French leadership\u003cbr/\u003eto change course. \u003cbr/\u003ePainful reforms instituted to save the social security system from bankruptcy and bring France''s budget deficit in line with European Union rules have turned wide swaths of French society against Chirac''s governing conservatives.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Socialists, combining forces with the Communist Party and the Greens, won 20 out of mainland France''s 22 regions,\u003cbr/\u003eholding onto the eight it already ran and conquering 12 others. \u003cbr/\u003eResults from four overseas regions were not immediately available.\u003cbr/\u003eThe conservative right ended the day with only one region secured, Alsace in eastern France, and possibly Corsica.\u003cbr/\u003eNineteen of the government''s 38 ministers were candidates in the regional races, and all of them lost.\u003cbr/\u003eVoters were choosing regional councils that decide local issues from building schools to improving public transport.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the elections were seen as a referendum on Raffarin''s increasingly unpopular government.\u003cbr/\u003eThe leader of the triumphant Socialists, Francois Hollande, said a mere ministerial shuffle would not be enough, \"no matter how big it is.\" Instead, he said the government must keep its hands off the public sector.\u003cbr/\u003eRaffarin defended his government''s action, but the elections dealt him a cruel personal blow who saw the region he presided over for 14 years, Poitou-Charente in western France, fall to the Socialists.\u003cbr/\u003eEven former President Valery Giscard d''Estaing lost his region, Auvergne, which swung to the Socialists after 16\u003cbr/\u003eyears under his command. \u003cbr/\u003eChirac''s conservatives had hoped to save their honour by taking the Paris region, the richest and most populous,\u003cbr/\u003efrom the Socialists. But they failed there, too. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was Chirac, however, who was the ultimate loser Sunday night. \u003cbr/\u003eHis party, the Union for a Popular Movement, was devoid of a solid grassroots base. He was caught between commitments\u003cbr/\u003eto an unpopular reform program and calls by the left to scrap it, and overseeing what even politicians on the right\u003cbr/\u003ecalled a \"crisis of confidence\" in the nation''s leadership.\u003cbr/\u003eTurnout was high, with around two-thirds of the country''s nearly 42 million voters casting ballots, exit polls showed. \u003cbr/\u003eExit polls showed the opposition left getting nearly half of the votes, compared to around 37 percent for the right.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the few silver linings for the government was the moderate showing by the far-right, anti-immigration National Front. \u003cbr/\u003eIt polled just 13-14 percent of the vote and less for its star candidate in the Paris region. \u003cbr/\u003eMirroring results in mainland France, voters in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique appeared to have lined up strongly behind candidates of the left and against President Jacques Chirac''s Union for a Popular 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