French presidential candidate Sarkozy increases lead after TV debate - polls |
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PARIS Thomson Financial - Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy has increased his lead in the race against socialist Segolene Royal to become French president since this week's head-to-head television debate, new polls showed.The Ipsos/Dell poll showed Sarkozy winning Sunday's final-round vote with 54 pct of the vote, a gain of half a percentage point from his position before the debate on Wednesday evening.Royal dropped half a point to 46 pct.The survey of 1,414 registered voters conducted Thursday had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.Earlier a CSA-Cisco poll, the first conducted and released after the debate, put Sarkozy on 53 pct, up one percentage point, and Royal on 47 pct, down one percentage point.Wednesday's debate was watched by more than 20 million viewers, and was seen as being decisive in winning over the nearly seven million voters who had backed centrist Francois Bayrou in the first round on April 22.The Ipsos/Dell poll found Bayrou supporters were splitting equally between Sarkozy and Royal.tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.comafp/jlwCOPYRIGHTCopyright AFX News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News.
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French polls put Sarkozy ahead of Royal with 52.5 pct of vote in May 6 run-off 