The Guardian
Marine Le Pen emerges from a voting booth after casting her vote at a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, France. Photograph: Dominique Charriau/Getty Images In the run up to Sunday's first round presidential vote, it was hard to find many people in...
New Statesman
The first official exit poll for the French presidential election has just been released and, as expected, Francois Hollande is set to win a comfortable victory in the first round. The Socialist currently has 28.4 per cent of the vote, with Nicolas...
Washington Post
Hollande, the Socialist candidate for president of France, staked a clear lead over President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's first round of voting, according to exit polls, and headed into a May 6 runoff election favored to become the country's next...
Zee News
Hollande won between 28 and 30 per cent of the vote in the first round, to Sarkozy's 24 to 27.5, according to estimates compiled from ballot samples by several polling agencies and obtained from multiple sources. That made Sarkozy the only incumbent...
Sydney Morning Herald
Story continues below Hollande was in the overall lead, amid widespread disappointment with Sarkozy's first term and a sense that the incumbent favours the rich when the country is struggling with unemployment and bleak economic prospects. With about...
The Globe & Mail
Video Video Video Preliminary results as the polls closed on Sunday night showed Mr. Sarkozy receiving a very disappointing 25.5 per cent of the vote, down from the substantial 31.2 per cent first-round result that helped bring him to victory five...