French PM apologises for cowardice jibe

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PARIS, June 21 (Reuters) French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, looking to calm a ferocious political storm, apologised today for accusing the leader of the Socialist party of cowardice.

''If certain words personally wounded you, I regret it and I withdraw them,'' Villepin told a packed parliament.

Villepin faced widespread calls to quit yesterday after launching an unusually fierce attack on Socialist leader Francois Hollande during a vitriolic exchange in parliament over industrial policy.

REUTERS SHR HS1857

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