- Jan 12, 2003
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A poll revealing widespread dissatisfaction with Paris's handling of the disaster and press criticism of the summer "massacre" showed he and and his ministers were facing their worst political crisis since winning elections last year.
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The left-wing newspaper Liberation emphasised that it was possible that the death toll in France could be "three times that of the attack on the World Trade Center" and said: "Jacques Chirac must feel the consequences. And make sure that the ministers concerned, whose credibility is now tarnished, assume their responsibilities."
Le Parisien paper, meanwhile, printed a poll by the CSA institute showing that 51 percent of the French believed the government had shown itself incompetent in dealing with the extraordinary weather, compared to 40 percent who thought the opposite