President Nicolas Sarkozy: Opinion Polls

Elections Dept: Related: Why French and U.S. elections are unnerving investors, according to The Star. Never, I think, has an election been so undecided, he said Friday in a broadcast interview and pARIS France wound up a long and rancorous presidential campaign Friday with opinion polls predicting victory for Fran ois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who promises economic stimulus measures to soften the austerity cutbacks imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy during the European debt crisis. Sarkozy, a business-oriented conservative battling for a second five-year term, told his followers in a final rally that the race was not over despite what the polls said. Political specialists explained that he was counting on a bloc of undecided voters estimated at up to 10 per cent of the electorate to tip the balance in his favour before Sunday s runoff ballot. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.