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France’s Vote Turnout Highest in Decades

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Posted on Apr 22, 2007
Segolene Royal
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French presidential candidate Segolene Royal.

France has experienced its highest voter turnout in nearly 50 years, with right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Segolene Royal, pictured, headed for a runoff. If she wins, Royal will be France’s first woman president, but she took in fewer votes than Sarkozy.


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Centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will face Socialist Segolene Royal in the run-off of France’s presidential election on 6 May, results indicate.

With most votes counted in Sunday’s first round, Mr Sarkozy had nearly 31%, with Ms Royal, bidding to be France’s first woman president, on 25%.

Centrist Francois Bayrou got 18%, and far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen almost 11%.

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By QuyTran, April 23, 2007 at 1:39 pm Link to this comment

At 52 years young, she’s still lookng so georgous !

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 22, 2007 at 9:33 pm Link to this comment

Sego and Sarko:-

I guess at the runoff it will be +/-15%

Sarko 31 + 11 = 42%
Sego 25 + 18 = 43%

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