The employment minister, Elisabeth Guigou, just did so in Avignon, but was then trounced.

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Mrs Guigou has more proposals to put to parliament that do not need a constitutional amendment.

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Mrs Guigou's calculation that their demands would add euro1.2 billion to France's annual social-security bill leaves them unmoved.

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As a technocrat-turned-politician, Mrs Guigou, think her admirers, would fit the bill nicely.

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Elisabeth Guigou, the justice minister of the day, managed to push through a law to strengthen the presumption of innocence.

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Pua did not confirm the changes he plans, but is expected to replace midfielder Gustavo Varela with Marcelo Romero, and Guigou with Fabian O'Neill.

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Minister Elisabeth Guigou indicated on Wednesday that she was in favour of a reassessment of health workers' pay, but called for a "spirit of dialogue and compromise".

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Ms Guigou, then minister for European affairs, rejected the accusations, saying: "Roland Dumas appears unable to accept the fact that this government chose not to intervene in judicial affairs".

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Indeed, on December 9th almost 6m viewers saw him triumph, in a two-hour grilling on live television, over a string of opponents ranging from media pundits and the Socialists' former minister, Elisabeth Guigou, to the extreme-right bogeyman, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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