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Hollande edges Sarkozy. Time runs out for European bankers… French have more balls than the rest of western civ put together

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Bankers (and Diebold) have two weeks to swing the results of run-off round two.

François Hollande
28,8 %

Nicolas Sarkozy
26,1 %

Marine Le Pen
18,5 %

Jean-Luc Mélenchon
11,7 %

François Bayrou
8,8 %

Eva Joly
2,3 %

Nicolas Dupont-aignan
1,8 %

Philippe Poutou
1,2 %

Nathalie Arthaud
0,6 %

Jacques Cheminade
0,2 %

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Big win for Hollande but even more stunning victory for extreme right winger Le Pen, which only proves that nationalism is back in Europe with a vengeance.

8 pm has just passed in France, and all the polls are now closed, which means official preliminary data is now allowed – the first results from IPSOS are in, and are as follows:

Francois Hollande: 28.4%
Nicholas Sarkozy: 25.5%
Marine Le Pen: 20.0% – extreme right: much better than expected as nationalism is back.
Jean-Luc Melenchon: 11.7% – extreme left: best communist showing since 1981 yet weaker than expected.
Francois Bayrou: 8.5%
Eva Joly: 2.0%
the others [...]

SARKOZY LOSES: Hollande won between 28 and 30% of the vote in the first round, to Sarkozy’s 24 to 27.5

Socialist champion Francois Hollande stamped his authority on the French presidential race on Sunday, winning the first round of polling and setting up a May 6 run-off with incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

Hollande won between 28 and 30% 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 by AFP from multiple sources.

That made Sarkozy the only incumbent [...]

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Hollande edges Sarkozy. Time runs out for European bankers… French have more balls than the rest of western civ put together

Big win for Hollande but even more stunning victory for extreme right winger Le Pen, which only proves that nationalism is back in Europe with a vengeance.

SARKOZY LOSES: Hollande won between 28 and 30% of the vote in the first round, to Sarkozy’s 24 to 27.5

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