Posted on 05/05/2007 2:04:20 AM PDT by Cincinna
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is expected to win tomorrow’s presidential run-off in France, according to four voting intention polls. In a survey by BVA released by Orange, Sarkozy is ahead with 55 per cent, and Socialist Party (PS) candidate Ségolène Royal trails with 45 per cent.
In a study by TNS-Sofres released by Unilog, Sarkozy holds a nine-point advantage over Royal. Support for the UMP contender reaches 54 per cent in a tracking poll by Ipsos released by SFR and Le Point, and 53 per cent in a survey by CSA published in Le Parisien.
First round voting took place on Apr. 22. Final results put Sarkozy in first place with 31.18 per cent, followed by Royal with 25.87 per cent, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader François Bayrou with 18.57 per cent, and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front (FN) with 10.44 per cent. Since no candidate garnered more than 50 per cent of the vote, a run-off featuring the top two vote-getters will take place on May 6.
Yesterday, the two candidates closed their campaigns. Sarkozy vowed to bring people together "without hatred" in a "wide-ranging coalition." Royal urged voters to vote for a woman, and asked sympathizers to channel their "positive energy" to convince "the ones who are still hesitating."
The UMP’s Jacques Chirac won the presidential ballot in 1995, and was re-elected in a run-off over Le Pen in May 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at angus-reid.com ...
“Perhaps he’ll make France a little more sane?”
I’m not buying the notion that there was any sanity in France to begin with...
Yay!!
Royal, desperate, has tried to scare people into voting for her, with threats of riots.
Typical leftie crap. Her 'warning' of 'risks' of violence amounted to nothing more than a call to arms of her leftie supporters, a not so thinly veiled threat of violence. As others have noted, what is it about lefties and violence, and paranoia, too?
Thank you so much for the report from the gound! We would very much appreciate a firsthand update on election day and after.
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