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France's presidential election becomes a test of personalities - by Angela Doland
As France's heated presidential election rushes into a climactic final week of campaigning, the debate Friday between Socialist Segolene Royal and her conservative challenger Nicolas Sarkozy became one of personality, not their different recipes for reviving France. Royal, struggling in her quest to become the country's first woman president, is working to make their May 6 runoff a referendum on the character of the pugnacious and blunt former interior minister, whose platform of economic reforms and tough measures against crime and immigration scare many in the opposing camp.
It's a cold calculation and a political gamble by Royal, as she tries to pull in a disparate arc of voters from far leftists to the millions of moderate voters who chose third-place candidate Francois Bayrou in the first round and who hold the key to the runoff.
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