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Socialist contender for next years presidential race, Segolene Royal, smiles as she attends a meeting of the French Socialist party (PS) in Strasbourg, eastern France, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Royal proposed on Wednesday ordering military or community service for troubled youths over 16 and dispatching younger troublemakers to reform schools. Her stance was a departure from the standard Socialist line, often criticized as being lax, but was in keeping with proposals by law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, himself considered a likely candidate for the governing party, known as the UMP. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/ Christian Hartmann)