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Bernard Tapie seeks seat in Marseilles election

Bernard Tapie, businessman, football-club owner and former minister, casting his vote yesterday in Marseilles, where he was standing for the local council in elections regarded as the first big test of the popularity of the Prime Minister, Edouard Balladur.

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