© AP VERSAILLES, France (AP) - French lawmakers voted Monday in favor of a sweeping revision of France's constitution _ but by a one-vote margin that highlights the controversy behind the vote.
The changes give parliament greater power but also add privilege to the presidency.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has narrowly won a vote to pass a sweeping package of constitutional reforms that he pledged would strengthen the country's traditionally weak parliament.
The reforms were among the main pledges of Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign and, together with Prime Minister Francois Fillon, he lobbied hard for a deal with the opposition Socialists and potential rebels in his own party.
ph for its reform platform.

President Sarkozy toasted a landmark victory last night as the French Parliament narrowly backed his overhaul of the country's 50-year-old Constitution in a

VERSAILLES, France (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's flagship constitutional reform was passed Monday at a special congress of deputies and