BBC
France is set to vote in a run-off poll that could see a socialist win a French presidential election for the first time since 1988. In the first round socialist Francois Hollande won 28.6% of the vote, ahead of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on 26.2%.
Mail Online UK
5 May 2012 Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Duncan Smith has risked a diplomatic row by predicting that French immigrants will pour into Britain if a socialist president is elected today. The Work and Pensions Secretary warned that Left-wing candidate...
Arab News
Europe's fiscal austerity policies are the key issue in elections taking place today in France and Greece. They are happening in the context of a growing backlash across Europe against efforts to slash deficits, according to QNB Group analysis.
The Independent
Today, people from across the globe are looking at France in the expectation that the dry and colourless Francois Hollande will take the presidency. The last time such a major political happening occurred was in 2008 when the world was gripped by the...
Zaman.com
May 2012 / , President Nicolas Sarkozy faces defeat at the hands of Socialist Francois Hollande in a presidential runoff on Sunday, paving the way for a French push to temper austerity in stagnating euro zone economies with a new focus on growth. A...
Jerusalem Post
The finalists continued to campaign after the first round, intensifying their activity on May Day and participating in a three-hour face-to-face television debate last week that was watched live by 22 million. Sarkozy and Hollande battled until the...