Chances that the current French president will be re-elected are slim to none.
Amherst, MA - In less than three months, Nicolas Sarkozy will probably become the second president in the 50-year history of the French Fifth Republic to be defeated for re-election. (The first time was in 1981, when incumbent president Valery Giscard d’Estaing lost to Francois Mitterrand.)
Sarkozy’s standing in the polls is at a historic low for a Fifth Republic president. His main rival, Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande, enjoys a commanding lead: 58 per cent compared to Sarkozy’s 42 per cent, according to a Le Monde poll in early March. An imbalance of this magnitude between major candidates this close to the election is unprecedented in the history of the Fifth Republic.
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