Jean-Luc Melenchon, a leader of France's far-left party who is no fan of Cahuzac, said the budget minister should nonetheless keep his position for the time being.
Among the disappointed were also the Christian Democrats, the centre-left D66 and the far-left Socialist Party, which until less than a month ago enjoyed unprecedented popularity.
Another trend was the exit of the far-left Linke party from the leadership coalition.
He has a populist competitor in the far-left Socialist Party, which promises to scrap the 3% deficit target and reverse market reforms to health care.
The Democratic Party and its far-left ally, the Left, Ecology and Liberty, or SEL, party are expected to get 30.1% in the Senate, according to projections by the Piepoli Institute for state broadcaster RAI.
It is for this reason that, while the Greek CP wants out of the euro, the growingly influential far left parliamentary group SYRIZA does not, and neither does the hard-right religious party LAOS. Everybody can see that an external devaluation will be chaotic, painful and cause its own kind of social unrest, just as the attempted internal devaluation is doing.
In the 2002 presidential election, even without a split in the party, the left paid a heavy price for its fragmentation: the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen evicted Mr Jospin in the first round.
Some fear that Netanyahu will take his electoral victory, throw it in the garbage and replay Sharon's perfidy, by spitting on his voters and his party and forming a narrow coalition with the far Left in order to appease the anti-Semites in Washington.
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French left-wing party leader Jean-Luc Melenchon says he will run for the same seat as far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the forthcoming parliamentary polls.
But, having steered the League so far to the right, it is hard to see how he could join an opposition dominated by the centre-left Democratic Party.
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