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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... 46%, Martine Aubry at 40% and Sego at 39%. And then the terrifying bit - 31% think that Trotskyite Olivier Besancenot would be a good president , ahead of 31% for Liberal leader François Bayrou.
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
So, what to make of a presidential poll that gives François Bayrou 14%, Marine Le Pen 11, Olivier Besancenot 10, and Dominique de Villepin 8? If we read those numbers as expressing some kind of dissatisfaction with the current regime, and add Martine Aubry's 20%, we get the usual conundrum of French presidential politics: the vast majority of voters are unhappy with what they've...