At the first round, Sarkozy had 30% and Royal had 26%, so... who d'you prefer?

I've just voted on your poll, my dear.

I voted for Sarkosy

:)

 

 

 

Ahahaha, parité oblige! :smug:

 

 

 

SO, Sarkozy seems to be the winner for this second round... but we never know!

I voted for Ségolène Royal because

 

1) She's a woman

2) She seems to be all around ok

3) That other guy (Sarkozy) just bothers me

 

so, fingers crossed for Royal! :shy:

I voted for Ségolène Royal because

 

1) She's a woman

2) She seems to be all around ok

3) That other guy (Sarkozy) just bothers me

 

so, fingers crossed for Royal! :shy:

 

 

 

 

Close to be the same!

I voted for Sarkozy because , ROYAL IS A SOCIALIST (that is the same as COMUNISM XD). And COMUNISM isn't evil too much , but what it brought to me is terrible.

Ségo is such a stupid woman in my opinion! She can't express herself....

I will vote Sarko

FOX : :kiss:

:confused: I prefer talking about programs, and IN MY OPINION, Sarkozy's one is not the better one...

 

I agree to say that Ségo has a little probleme in her speech, but I don't matter...

I vote for not voting!

i'm not well informed about both but i didn't like sarko's comments about emigrants...and at the same time sego seems to have no good ideas...

but this is just the idea i've got from what i've heard

i'm not at all french but sarkozy kinda concerns me, i'm very much hoping that the francais go for royal but i just don't see it happening...

I vote for not voting!

 

 

I second this!

 

My vote will be the same as the first round...

Royal for me!

 

I don't want : the return of the religion, choiced immigration (leting poor countries in the shit), thinking that if you're unemployed in France is just because you don't to work... as Sarkozy do!

Your lucky, you only have to work 35 hours a week.

 

I work 40 hours a week, my brother works 48 hours a week (even shifts which lead to midnight)

Sarkozy has the edge as France votes in election

 

By Anna Willard

PARIS (Reuters) - France voted in an election run-off on Sunday with opinion polls suggesting conservative Nicolas Sarkozy will defeat Socialist Segolene Royal in her bid to become France's first woman president.

 

Sarkozy, 52, is a combative former interior minister who has promised tough reforms to make France work more, crack down on crime and cut unemployment. Royal, 53, has pledged to create jobs but has also vowed to keep cherished social protections.

 

Final opinion polls gave Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant who has dreamt of being president for all his adult life, a commanding 10-point lead over Royal.

 

Turnout among the 44.5 million electorate was expected to be high after 84.5 percent voted in the first round on April 22, when Sarkozy and Royal eliminated 10 candidates in the race to succeed conservative Jacques Chirac after 12 years in office.

 

The winner will inherit a fractured, fragile society in need of economic reform and a dose of self belief even though France is a nuclear power, has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and is the euro zone's second largest economy.

 

"An election that will turn France upside down," said a headline in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

 

"Presidential D-day," declared Le Parisien newspaper.

 

The election marks a generational shift as Chirac, 74, bows out but just how far France is ready for change remains open to question.

 

Polling stations in mainland France opened at 8:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) but about

1 million citizens in France's overseas territories and French residents in the Americas were able to vote on Saturday.

 

Opinion polls giving an initial indication of the result were expected immediately after voting ends at 8:00 p.m. and official results were due to start coming in soon afterwards.

DANGEROUS CHOICE

 

Sarkozy won almost 31.2 percent of votes in the first round and Royal secured nearly 25.9 percent. Much of the second round of campaigning focused on trying to woo supporters of centrist Francois Bayrou, who was third with more than 18 percent.

 

Royal has proposed combining left-wing economic policies and a consensual approach to social affairs in a "change without brutality" reform package.

Sarkozy vows to shake up the hide-bound economy to boost annual growth from around two percent, reduce unemployment estimated at least 8.3 percent and boost spending power.

 

Royal cautioned on Friday that her rival was a "dangerous choice" whose election could spark new violence in suburbs where Sarkozy is unpopular and alienated youths rioted in late 2005.

 

Sarkozy's campaign team dismissed such accusations and denied charges that he is authoritarian. They portrayed Royal as a gaffe-prone lightweight who has not said how she will fund her social policies and will not be able to keep her cool.

 

Royal, a regional leader, defied veteran leaders of her party to capture the presidential nomination but her party and traditional leftist voters appear divided over her candidacy.

 

 

Sarkozy built his campaign around the ruling Union for a Popular Movement which he heads. He also eventually won Chirac's support in the presidential race although relations between them have often been strained.

Neither is expected to drift far from Chirac's foreign policies but Sarkozy is considered closer to the United States and opposes Turkey's bid to join the EU.

i hope for Royal.......Sarkozy seems a Nationalist.......but i'm afraid he'll win....:(

We'll know it by one hour.

 

"Ensemble tout devient Possible."

I'm used to have a shit as a President : I'm young, I just know Chirac for President... and now I know another one Sarkozy who talked about "change, change, change" but he was a Minister these last 5 years!!!

Knew it would be Sarkozy, sadly.

Let's see what happens now to France...

It will be much better when one thinks the slump we've been into for a long time. :(

Sarkozy will just has to do a good job... each mistake = massive protestation

 

So be careful Sarko, we are waiting you to do good job, please change!