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2016 Postmortem

MindMover

(5,016 posts) Sun Apr 22, 2012, 03:20 PM Apr 2012

Profiles: 2012 French presidential election candidates

France's 2012 presidential election is one of the most closely fought in decades.

Nicolas Sarkozy may become the first president not to be re-elected for a second term since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1981.

Here the BBC News website looks at the 10 men and women vying for the Elysee Palace in the two-round election, to be held on 22 April and 6 May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16730494#TWEET130576