Profiles: 2012 French presidential election candidates

France's 2012 presidential election is one of the most closely fought in decades.

Nicolas Sarkozy may become the first president not to be re-elected for a second term since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1981.

Here the BBC News website looks at the 10 men and women vying for the Elysee Palace in the two-round election, to be held on 22 April and 6 May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16730494#TWEET130576

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Profiles: 2012 French presidential election candidates (Original post)	MindMover	Apr 2012	OP
Sarkozy is done. He's even less popular there than Bush was here in 2008.	Drunken Irishman	Apr 2012	#1
I would have voted for Melenchon if I were French.	Odin2005	Apr 2012	#2

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Sun Apr 22, 2012, 05:11 PM

Drunken Irishman (24,593 posts)

1. Sarkozy is done. He's even less popular there than Bush was here in 2008.

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Sun Apr 22, 2012, 05:56 PM

Odin2005 (48,255 posts)

2. I would have voted for Melenchon if I were French.

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