BBC: France election: Sarkozy seeks key far-right votes, "I have heard you."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is wooing far-right voters after losing narrowly to his Socialist rival in the presidential election's first round.
Ms Le Pen, who campaigned on a nationalist, anti-immigration platform, said she would wait until May Day next week to give her view on the second round. She told jubilant supporters that the result was "only the start" and that the party was now "the only opposition" to the Left. Opinion polls taken after voting on Sunday suggested that between 48% and 60% of Le Pen voters would switch to backing Mr Sarkozy in the second round.
Leftist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who was backed by the Communist Party, came fourth with almost 12%. He urged his supporters unconditionally to rally behind Mr Hollande in the run-off.
The Socialist candidate has promised to raise taxes on big corporations and people earning more than 1m euros a year. He also wants to raise the minimum wage, hire 60,000 more teachers and lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17814785
Sounds like Sarkozy plans to campaign further to the right rather than tack towards the center for the second round of presidential voting.