Start your day with intelligence. Get The OODA Daily Pulse.
France entered its last week of campaigning for the first round of the presidential election Sunday, with right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy the clear leader in the polls but still far from certain of ultimate victory. The head of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) has come top in 102 out of 104 surveys taken since January, consistently outperforming the Socialist Party’s (PS) Segolene Royal, the centrist Francois Bayrou and veteran National Front (FN) leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Full Story