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Socialist Party Dept: PARIS - French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party won a solid majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, polling agencies projected, fortifying Hollande in his push for governments to spend money not cut budgets to tackle Europe's economic crisis, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "This new, solid and large majority will allow us now to pass laws for change, and gives us great responsibilities in France and in Europe," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on France-2 television as the results started coming in and gilbert Collard, a National Front Party candidate for French legislative elections, casts his vote during the second round of French legislative elections, in Gallician, near Nimes, southern France, Sunday, June 17, 2012. AP Photo/Claude Paris Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives, who dominated the outgoing National Assembly, suffered a stinging loss, according to all estimations. Meanwhile, the far-right National Front party was on track to win a small but symbolically important presence in parliament for the first time in years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.