{"id":7619,"date":"2012-04-22T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2012-04-22T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T19:22:39","slug":"holland-and-sarkozy-lead-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/holland-and-sarkozy-lead-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland and Sarkozy Lead in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks from today, Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy will face off to determine who will be the new President of France.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22France\"Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff in the race for France’s presidency, according to partial official results after a first round of voting Sunday.<\/p>\n

Voters also handed a surprisingly strong third-place showing to anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim candidate Marine Le Pen, the partial results indicated.<\/p>\n

The contest, to be resolved in the runoff May 6, could alter the European political landscape as the continent deals with a financial crisis.<\/p>\n

Hollande was in the overall lead, amid widespread disappointment with Sarkozy’s first term and a sense that the incumbent favors the rich when the country is struggling with unemployment and bleak economic prospects.<\/p>\n

With about 33 percent of the vote counted, Hollande had 27.5 percent of ballots cast and Sarkozy 26.6 percent, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry after final polls closed\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hollande is favored and I certainly hope he wins.  Sarko is one of the key figures behind Europe\u2019s failed Austerity programs, while Hollande is the closest thing France has to Bernie Sanders.  More in two weeks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks from today, Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy will face off to determine who will be the new President of France. Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff in the race for France’s presidency, according to partial official results after a first round of voting Sunday. Voters also […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}