OH, TO BE BRIGHT...:

Sarkozy accused of forging ties with National Front leader (Delphine Strauss, April 14 2007, Financial Times)

The magazine Nouvel Observateur reported yesterday that a survey of voting intentions by the intelligence services showed Mr Sarkozy could find himself facing the nationalist candidate in this year's run-off vote.

The intelligence services, recently under Mr Sarkozy's control as interior minister, deny having conducted any survey.

The Nouvel Observateur said it put Mr Sarkozy inthe lead in the first-round vote, with his Socialist party rival, Ségolène Royal, eliminated.

Yet rivals to the left of Mr Sarkozy's UMP party view his sympathy for far-right themes as the weakest point of his campaign, and appear to be making it their key target in a concerted attempt to erode his consistent lead in opinion polls.

Polls show a run-off between the Right and the Fascist so the Left is playing up the very issues that made them a non-alternative?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 19, 2007 10:22 PM