Nicola Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are in the lead of French Presidential campaign

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.04.2007 14:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the final results of the presidential
elections in France declared by Home Office, the leader of "Union
for Popular Movement" 52-year-old Nicola Sarkozy gathered 31.11
percent of votes, France Press reports. 25.84 percent of voters
supported Sarkozy’s nearest competitor – 53-year-old Segolen Royal,
representative from Socialistic party.

Together with Sarkozy she will participate in the second stage of
presidential elections on May 6.

Candidate of right centrists Francois Bayrou got 18.55 percent of
votes, and leader of National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen – 10.51 percent.

84.6 percent of those eligible from nearly 44.5 million registered
voters participated in the voting.

This is similar to the record fixed in presidential elections of
1965. This information does not include those 820 000 bulletins that
were cast French citizens abroad. These results will be published
on Monday.

According to polls in the result of the second stage Sarkozy will win
the election at a ratio of 54 to 46 percent. Earlier French media
reported 5 left wing candidates who totally gathered 10 percent of
votes, called on their electorate to vote for Royal. The main struggle
between the two candidates for the post of Jacques Chirac will develop
for those voters who have supported Francois Bayrou during the first
stage, Lenta.ru reports.