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April 17, 2012

Personalities Trump Policies in French Vote

Mathieu von Rohr, Der Spiegel

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French voters go to the polls for the first round of the presidential election on Sunday. So far, it's been a strange campaign in which personalities have played a bigger role than the country's troubled economy. The French media have focused primarily on the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy -- a fate which remains uncertain.

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