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France - Poll shows top conservative, Socialist hopefuls equal in first-round presidential vote
Leading Socialist presidential hopeful Segolene Royal would be toe-to-toe with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the likely conservative candidate, should they face off in April's first round of voting, a poll published Monday indicates.
Three days before the opposition Socialist Party chooses its candidate for the 2007 presidential race, a poll by the TNS-Sofres-Unilog firm showed the probable candidates for the two biggest parties with equal shares of the vote, both taking 34 percent.
Royal on Monday called on party members to "vote massively" in this week's internal party contest to pick a candidate. She faces former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. "The two opposing candidates to Mrs. Royal in the Socialist primaries are trailing in the polls against Mr. Sarkozy from the Right." Extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would get 13 percent of the vote, the sounding of 1,000 people indicated. No margin of error was given, but it would be plus or minus three percentage points in such a sampling.
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