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France's Sarkozy losing ground to Socialist rival: poll
(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost ground to his Socialist rival in the past two weeks of campaigning, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, predicting front-runner Francois Hollande would easily win the May 6 presidential election runoff.
The poll for LH2-Yahoo showed Sarkozy losing 3 percentage points to 23 percent while Hollande slipped 1.5 percentage points but remained well ahead on 30.5 percent of voting intentions for the April 22 first round.
If the second round runoff were to be held today, Hollande would get 58 percent of votes and Sarkozy 42 percent.
Centrist candidate Francois Bayrou gained 2 percentage points to 15 percent, putting him in third place alongside National Front candidate Marine Le Pen, who gained 1 percentage point. ....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/04/us-france-election-idUSTRE81N1SS20120304