Tunisia: Franco-Tunisian Vote Leans Left in Upcoming French Presidential Election

Tomorrow - April 22 - the French community living in Tunisia will vote in the first round of the French 2012 elections from ten voting offices set up around the country.

Unlike the hundred plus candidates in the Tunisian October 2011 elections, there are just ten hopefuls in the upcoming French race for the presidential office. It is widely expected that in the second round of the elections on May 6, the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (center-right) party will face socialist candidate Francois Hollande.

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