PARIS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Jean-Marie Le Pen, president
of the far-right party National Front on Tuesday called his supporters to
massively abstain from the second round presidential elections which is slated
on Sunday in France.
"I invite the voters who showed their confidence in
me to give their vote neither to Segolene Royal nor to Nicolas Sarkozy," Le Pen
declared in an address during a public gathering on the occasion of
international labor's day.
It would be "illusory and dangerous" to vote for the
Socialist candidate Royal to "get revenge for the hold-up carried out on our
program" by Sarkozy," candidate for the ruling Union for a Popular Movement, he
said.
It also would be "insane to hand our votes to a
candidate who continues to consider us extremists,'' he added.
Le Pen, who defeated the Socialist candidate in the
last election in 2002 before being defeated in the second round by President
Jacques Chirac, took the fourth place in the first round this time, with 10.5
percent of all the valid votes.
Analysts estimate that most Le Pen's voters would
vote for Sarkozy in the second round.
According to the latest poll made by Ipsos/Dell for
French magazine Le Point and SFR, Sarkozy would win 53 percent of the votes in
the presidential runoff, against 47 percent for Royal.
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Right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist
Segolene Royal have entered the second round of the French presidential
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PARIS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Nicolas Sarkozy, candidate
for the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) will win over Socialist
party's candidate Segolene Royal in the second round presidential elections with
53 percent of votes against 47 percent, according to a poll made public by
Ipsos/Dell on Tuesday.
According to the poll, the electoral base of each of
the final candidates are solid: 88 percent of voters who have intentions of
voting for Royal and 87 percent of voters who have intentions of voting for
Sarkozy have declared their definite choice.
Sarkozy, Royal enter French
presidential run-off
PARIS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Right-wing Nicolas
Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal have entered the second round of the French
presidential race, first results indicated on Sunday.
Sarkozy won between 30.1 and 30.8 percent of the vote
while Royal between 25.2 and 25.9 percent, according to major survey
organizations.
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