French President Nicolas Sarkozy: Presidential Runoff

Francois Hollande Dept: PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday fiercely denied that he was offered campaign funding from late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as new challenges piled up against him a week ahead of the country's presidential runoff, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Polls predict Sarkozy will lose the May 6 runoff to Socialist Francois Hollande, who promises government-funded jobs programs and higher taxes on the rich pledges that resonate with a recession-weary electorate and socialist presidential candidate for the upcoming presidential election Francois Hollande stands by the wall engraved with the names of the 76,000 Jews deported from France as part of the Nazi plan to exterminate Judaism in Europe, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012. AP Photo/Jacky Naegelen, pool Sarkozy also rebuffed leftist critics who compared his campaign rhetoric to that of France's Nazi collaborators, reviving ugly wartime memories in what has been a particularly bitter presidential race. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.