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...Early election returns showed Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) candidate Sarkozy winning around 30% of the vote, versus nearly 26% for Royal - largely in line with what recent polls had projected. But the strong, 18.5% showing by Francois Bayrou of the Union for French Democracy party casts the centrist in the role of possible kingmaker going into the second round. The weight of the Bayrou vote was further enhanced by the electoral whipping of extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who in France's last presidential race in 2002 shocked the nation by making it into the final...
...Segolene Royal, this year's Socialist contender, is running second in the polls behind conservative front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy of Chirac's Union for a Popular Majority (UMP). Striking a pose of tranquility and confidence, she never explicitly invokes the prospect of a repeat of her party's ignoble 2002 debacle. But her partner, Socialist Party Secretary Francois Hollande, put it bluntly a few days ago: "If the left is to be position to rule the country, people have to vote for Royal in the first round...
...presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy: the former Interior Minister, Sarkozy faces a major problem with the children of immigrants, many of whom will be voting for the first time in this year's race, after denouncing immigrant rioters as "scum" during nationwide disturbances in 2005. So, his party, the UMP, sought to repair some of the damage by chosing as its song "Mon pays France" (France, my country), a hip-hop track laid down by a young party activist. Unfortunately for Sarko, the kids were not amused. "Unbearable," writes blogger Cédric on fluctuat.net. "The chorus hurts my ears...
...Rose, One Campaign, One Woman." Sarkozy - a more polarizing figure - has inspired tributes and tirades in equal measure. Anti-Sarkozy numbers include "S.A.R.K.O." - a comprehensive diss sung to the tune of "D.I.S.C.O." - while supporters sing his praises on ditties such as "Sarko-Oh-Oh" - a track that the UMP candidate liked so much, he posted it on his official campaign site...
...Bayrou: But who has a majority? The people will decide who's in the next parliament [in elections] at the beginning of June. If the French beat back the PS and the UMP [in the final May 6 vote for president], as I think they want to, I promise you that they won't grant those partisans a majority in June. They'll vote for all those who want to participate in the new gathering of forces I'm proposing...