The French president is expected to announce a cabinet shake-up after his centre-right party suffered a heavy defeat in regional elections over the weekend. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Fillon, the prime minister, met in Paris on Monday to plan what one senior official described as a "technical reshuffle". The ruling UMP party took only 35.4 per cent of Sunday's vote, while the Socialist party and its allies won 54.1 per cent, preliminary results showed. Claude Gueant, Sarkozy's chief of staff, said the results were a "big wake-up call for quick and effective action" to tackle unemployment and other effects of the economic crisis".
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