French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, shakes hands with Socialist Party Secretary General Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace. Photo by the Associated Press.
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France heads to the polls this Sunday. Among ten candidates with varying political views, there are already two front runners — incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on the right, and François Holland on the left. As Holland creeps up in the polls Sarkozy is positioned to become the country’s first one-term president since 1981. Acacia Squires talked with Eleanor Beardsley, NPR’s Paris correspondent, about the upcoming elections.
