2007 French presidential election
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The 2007 French presidential election will be held to elect a president of France for a five year term. The first round of voting will take place on Sunday, 22 April 2007. If no candidate obtains an absolute majority, a second round between the two leading candidates will take place on Sunday, 6 May 2007. This will be the ninth presidential election of the Fifth French Republic.
Schedule for the election
- 22 February 2007: The decree convocating the election was published in the Journal officiel de la République française[1]
- 16 March 2007 - 6:00 pm (5:00 pm UTC): Deadline for candidates to have obtained the 500 sponsors from elected officials in at least 30 different departments or overseas territories which are required to run for president.[2]
- 19 March 2007 - 5:30 pm (4:30 pm UTC): Official candidate list announced by the Constitutional Council: 12 candidates[3]
- 9 April 2007: Official campaign starts
- 20 April 2007: Official campaign ends
- 21 April 2007: First round of vote in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and in voting offices in embassies and consulates in the Americas
- 22 April 2007: First round of voting - publication of exit polls is allowed from 8:00 pm (6:00 pm UTC) when the last polling stations close
- 25 April 2007: Official results of the first round announced — winner might be declared
- 27 April 2007: Official candidate list for second round announced
- 5 May 2007: Second round of vote in Guadeloupe etc.
- 6 May 2007: Second round of voting - publication of exit polls is allowed from 8:00 pm (6:00 pm UTC) when the last polling stations close
- 10 May 2007: Official results of the second round announced
- 16 May 2007 - Midnight (10:00 pm UTC): Expiration of the term of current president Jacques Chirac.
Results
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Requirements to be a candidate for the Presidency
- Reference: Constitutional Council, FAQ
The requirements for being a candidate are defined by the organic law of 6 November 1962.
All candidates must be of French nationality and at least 23 years old (the same requirement as for the candidates to the National Assembly).
Candidates must obtain signatures from 500 elected officials (e.g. mayors and members of the Parliament) supporting their candidacy. These signatures from elected officials (informally known in French as parrainages, but legally known as "presentations") must be from at least 30 different departments or overseas territories and no more than 10 percent can be from any individual department. A presentation from an elected official does not imply that this official supports the policies of the candidate, but rather that this official considers the candidate to be a serious candidate.
Candidates must also submit a statement with details of their personal assets.
The Constitutional Council published the official candidate list on 20 March 2007. The candidates are listed in a randomized order. This order will be used for the official campaign: thus, posters for Olivier Besancenot will always be on the #1 board, those for Marie-George Buffet on the #2 board, etc., regardless of where in France the boards are located.
Candidates
There are a total of 12 candidates for the 2007 election.[3]
Leading candidates
These are candidates who are consistently registering over 10% in the opinion polls and are regarded as having at least a chance to reach the second round.[4]
- François Bayrou was nominated by the Union for French Democracy (UDF) on 2 December, 2006. The centrist party, a longtime ally of the UMP, has now embarked on a course of more marked independence.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen will run for the National Front, a far-right party which promotes policies of strong law enforcement, economic protectionism and strong measures to control immigration. As during previous presidential campaigns, Le Pen raised the question of whether he would be able to obtain the necessary 500 signatures on a number of occasions, which he claims is the result of pressure placed on elected officials by the major parties to support their own candidate (he has often claimed, during past elections, that "political elites" have sabotaged his campaigns); however, on 14 March 2007 his party said that he had obtained the necessary signatures.[5]
- Ségolène Royal was selected by the Socialist Party on 17 November, 2006 to be the party's candidate for the election. She won 60.6% of the votes in a ballot of party members to choose their candidate, against 20.8% for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and 18.5% for Laurent Fabius. She is the first woman to represent a major French party in a presidential contest.
- Nicolas Sarkozy was nominated by the Union for a Popular Movement on 14 January, 2007. He is the leader of the UMP and was Interior Minister until stepping down to focus on his campaign on 26 March 2007.[6]
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Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front
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Ségolène Royal of the Socialist Party
Other candidates
These are non leading candidates who have obtained 500 signatures from elected officials to endorse their candidacy.
- Olivier Besancenot: Revolutionary Communist League
- José Bové: Leftist running on an anti-globalization platform[7]
- Marie-George Buffet: Communist Party
- Arlette Laguiller: Workers' Struggle
- Frédéric Nihous: Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition Party
- Gérard Schivardi: styles himself as "the mayors' candidate", supported by Workers' Party
- Philippe de Villiers: president of the Movement for France party will run on a traditionalist Catholic and eurosceptic platform, and also a firm anti-Islamic message.
- Dominique Voynet: Green Party
Confirmed non-candidates
- Current president Jacques Chirac announced on 11 March 2007 that he would not be standing for another term as president. It had been rumoured that President Chirac was considering running for a third term, following recent statements, including his New Year's Address on 31 December 2006, and subsequent speeches which contained robust comments on international policy and detailed national policy proposals with a suggested five year timetable.[3] In March, Chirac announced his support for Sarkozy.[8]. There is no provision in the Constitution of 1958 specifying a limited number of terms, though a third term would have been unprecedented under the Fifth Republic.
- Christine Boutin announced that she would not be a candidate for the election and pledged her support for Nicolas Sarkozy (source: France 2 news, 2 December 2006).
- Rachid Kaci, member of the UMP and President of the group Free Right (la Droite Libre), announced his withdrawal as candidate and also pledged to support Nicolas Sarkozy on 21 December 2006 during a UMP public Forum.
- MRC chairman Jean-Pierre Chevènement announced on 10 December 2006 that he would not be running, and that his movement would back Ségolène Royal in return for an electoral agreement in the 2007 general election.
- Candidate for the Radical Party, Christiane Taubira in the 2002 election, confirmed that she would not be running following an electoral agreement between her party and the Socialist Party. The Radical Left in return will support Ségolène Royal.
- Nicolas Hulot, television presenter and environmental activist, was widely considered to be a possible candidate following the positive media and public reaction to his recent book and Environmental Charter. On 3 January 2007 Le Figaro newspaper reported that supporters of Hulot had begun gathering signatures to mount a campaign and a website, [4], was created to generate support. On 22 January he announced that he will not be a candidate.
- Corinne Lepage, environmentalist politician and activist, withdrew her candidacy in favour of Bayrou on 10 March 2007.[9]
- Roland Castro, architect and "utopian left" activist, withdrew his candidacy on 12 March 2007.
- Édouard Fillias: Alternative Libérale, a new French libertarian party, withdrew his candidacy on 13 March 2007 in favour of Bayrou.[10]
- Antoine Waechter: Independent Ecological Movement, withdrew his candidacy on 14 March 2007
Did not get enough endorsements
- Yves-Marie Adeline
- Yves Aubry
- Soheib Bencheikh
- Jacques Cheminade
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: ex-member of Union for a Popular Movement, announced on RTL radio on 10 January 2007 that he had obtained approximately 310 promises for signatures to validate his candidacy and intended to stand on a 'sovereignist' platform, against further European integration through the EU.
- France Gamerre: Génération Écologie
Issues facing France in the 2007 presidential election
The election raises a number of issues:
- The Far Right — The National Front, long dismissed as a fringe party, stunned many when its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, reached the second round of the 2002 elections. Le Pen's points of focus — law and order and immigration — are now openly taken up by politicians such as Nicolas Sarkozy. Ironically, Le Pen on 12 April criticised Sarkozy for being Hungarian and asked if he should run for the president of Hungary [5][6]. Le Pen is 79 years old, the same age which De Gaulle was when he stepped down from the presidency in 1969. His approval rating in opinion polls markedly increased after France's riots in 2005. As a counterpose, the Left and the cultural elite and athletics (like Lilian Thuram) have risen to oppose Sarkozy's response to the riots.
- Disarray of left-wing parties — During the 2002 presidential elections, a number of left-wing candidates ran for office, which, according to commentators, was one reason for the defeat of Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin. Since then, the Left has been split between a "mainstream" left, represented by the French Socialist Party, which accepts the capitalist economy, and some parties and groups further to the left that question or reject the capitalist economy.
- Jobs and unemployment — France has long had an unemployment rate close to 10 percent. Employment, and employment conditions, are a perennial concern for the French.
- High-level political scandals and disrepute — A number of scandals have tainted various French politicians, including president Jacques Chirac, with some, such as former prime minister Alain Juppé, being convicted. The recent Clearstream affair was exposed as a sordid case of forgery and denunciations involving major politicians from the ruling UMP coalition.
- European disunity — This French presidential election follows the EU Constitution rejection vote in 2005, which has thrown into question the future direction of the European Union.
- Europe and far-left — The victory of the "No" during the referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in 2005 hasn't been exploited yet by the left parties or organisations which supported it. The main topic of the far-left was to try to choose a single candidate for the "anti-liberal" Left; this eventually failed, and the far-left was represented by four competing candidates.
- Law and order — During the 2002 campaign, law and order came to the forefront, especially with respect to unruly youths from poor suburbs. In late 2005, in some of these suburbs significant unrest erupted. Again, law and order will be a forefront issue, with mainstream candidates tackling the problem of reining in unruly youngsters. Already, right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed measures to change criminal procedure for youngsters, while left-wing candidate Ségolène Royal has proposed to send unruly youths to centres under military discipline.[11]
- Feminism — France's first woman president may be elected in 2007 — Ségolène Royal, a Socialist, is running following her selection on 16 November 2006 as the candidate for the Socialist Party.
- Environment — The ecologist party, the Greens, are low in the polls, but Nicolas Hulot, a presenter of an environmentally-themed television show, is very popular and had considered running. Many parties, from the left to the right, are interested in his support.
Legal issues and freedom of speech
Apart from issues related to TV and radio time regulated by the broadcasting authorities during the two-week "official campaign", other legal issues related to freedom of speech of candidates appeared during the month before the first round.
- Proeminent political commentator Alain Duhamel was suspended in 2006 after a video was published on DailyMotion, where he stated his personal intentions of voting for François Bayrou.
- Candidate Gérard Schivardi was banned from calling himself le candidat des maires (the candidate of the mayors). The 2 April 2007 judicial injunction[12] was requested by the Association of French Mayors, who feared that the candidate might be perceived as officially endorsed by French mayors. As a result, he is unable to use the 25 million electoral flyers already printed, which he claims will cost his campaign €300,000.[13]
- Using the three colours of the national flag (blue, white, and red) on electoral advertisements or partisan documentation is prohibited by electoral regulations.[14]. Ségolène Royal contends that the book Ensemble ("together") published by Nicolas Sarkozy, whose cover is blue, white and red,[15] is effectively an electoral partisan documentation and should be covered by this prohibition.[16]
- François Bayrou proposed the idea of organising a "debate over the Internet" between the four leading candidates, in order to circumvent the obligation of TV and radio channels to provide equal times to all twelve candidates. However, Nicolas Sarkozy is opposed to such a debate because he considers that it would be illegal.[17]
- French law prohibits publishing the results of opinion polls related to the election during the day of the election and the preceding day, so as to prevent undue influencing of the vote.[18] No estimate can be given before Sunday 8PM, when the last voting office closes and official counts begin to be released. However, media from neighbouring countries, which are not bound by these regulations, have long broadcasted estimations (the Télévision Suisse Romande in particular). In 2007, the issue took a particular importance because of the generalisation of blogs and Internet pages. Journalist Jean-Marc Morandini stirred turmoil when he announced his intention of publishing results on his blog as soon as 18h00 [7].
Opinion polling
Polling Firm | Date | Source | Sarkozy | Royal | Bayrou | Le Pen | Others | Second round |
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Ifop | 20 April2007 | [8] | 28 | 22.5 | 20 | 13 | 16.5 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49, Bayrou 55 Sarkozy 45, Bayrou 58 Royal 42 |
Ipsos | 20 April2007 | [9] | 30 | 23 | 18 | 13 | 16 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 52 Sarkozy 48 |
TNS-Sofres | 19 April2007 | [10] | 28 | 24 | 19.5 | 14 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46 |
BVA | 19 April2007 | [11] | 29 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 18 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Ipsos | 19 April2007 | [12] | 30 | 23.5 | 18.5 | 13 | 15 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 52 Sarkozy 48 |
Ifop | 18 April2007 | [13] | 28 | 22.5 | 19 | 12.5 | 18 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
TNS-Sofres | 18 April2007 | [14] | 28.5 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Ipsos | 18 April2007 | [15] | 29.5 | 24.5 | 18.5 | 13.5 | 14 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 53 Sarkozy 47 |
CSA | 17 April2007 | [16] | 27 | 25 | 19 | 15.5 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
Ipsos | 17 April2007 | [17] | 28.5 | 25 | 18.5 | 14 | 14 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46 |
Louis-Harris | 16 April2007 | [18] | 27 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 17 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
CSA | 15 April2007 | [19] | 26 | 23 | 21 | 15 | 15 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Ipsos | 15 April2007 | [20] | 29.5 | 25 | 17.5 | 13.5 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 53.5 Sarkozy 46.5 |
Ifop | 15 April2007 | [21] | 28.5 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 16.5 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
TNS-Sofres | 14 April2007 | [22] | 30 | 26 | 17 | 12 | 15 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 14 April2007 | [23] | 29.5 | 24.5 | 17.5 | 14 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 53 Sarkozy 47 |
Ipsos | 13 April2007 | [24] | 30 | 24 | 18.5 | 13.5 | 14 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 53 Sarkozy 47 |
CSA | 12 April2007 | [25] | 27 | 25 | 19 | 15 | 14 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 12 April2007 | [26] | 29.5 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 53.5 Sarkozy 46.5 |
BVA | 12 April2007 | [27] | 28 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 16 | Sarkozy 55 Royal 45 |
Ipsos | 11 April2007 | [28] | 30 | 23.5 | 19 | 13.5 | 14 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 53.5 Sarkozy 46.5 |
Ipsos | 10 April2007 | [29] | 30.5 | 23 | 19.5 | 13 | 14 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 53.5 Sarkozy 46.5 |
Louis-Harris | 09 April2007 | [30] | 28 | 24 | 18 | 15 | 15 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ifop | 08 April2007 | [31] | 29.5 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 15.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ipsos | 08 April2007 | [32] | 30.5 | 22.5 | 19.5 | 13 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 53 Sarkozy 47 |
Ipsos | 07 April2007 | [33] | 31.5 | 23.5 | 19 | 12.5 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 52 Sarkozy 48 |
CSA | 06 April2007 | [34] | 26 | 23.5 | 21 | 16 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 06 April2007 | [35] | 31 | 24 | 18.5 | 13 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 51.5 Sarkozy 48.5 |
BVA | 05 April2007 | [36] | 29.5 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 16.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ipsos | 05 April2007 | [37] | 31.5 | 24.5 | 18.5 | 13 | 12.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Ifop | 04 April2007 | [38] | 27.5 | 23 | 20 | 14 | 15.5 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 04 April2007 | [39] | 31.5 | 25 | 18.5 | 13 | 12 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Ipsos | 03 April2007 | [40] | 31.5 | 24 | 19 | 13.5 | 12 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Louis-Harris | 02 April2007 | [41] | 29 | 26 | 18 | 13 | 14 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Ipsos | 01 April2007 | [42] | 31 | 24.5 | 19 | 13 | 12.5 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 52 Sarkozy 48 |
Ipsos | 31 March2007 | [43] | 32 | 24 | 18.5 | 12 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 51.5 Sarkozy 48.5 |
Ifop | 31 March2007 | [44] | 28 | 23 | 21 | 13.5 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
TNS-Sofres | 30 March2007 | [45] | 30 | 27 | 18 | 12 | 13 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
CSA | 30 March2007 | [46] | 26 | 24.5 | 19.5 | 15 | 15 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 30 March2007 | [47] | 31.5 | 25 | 17.5 | 12 | 14 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Ipsos | 29 March2007 | [48] | 31 | 24.5 | 18 | 12.5 | 14 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5, Bayrou 51.5 Sarkozy 48.5 |
BVA | 27 March2007 | [49] | 28 | 27 | 20 | 12 | 13 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Ipsos | 27 March2007 | [50] | 30.5 | 25 | 18.5 | 13 | 13 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 52 Sarkozy 48 |
Louis-Harris | 24 March2007 | [51] | 27 | 27 | 20 | 12 | 14 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49, Bayrou 60 Sarkozy 40 |
Ipsos | 24 March2007 | [52] | 30 | 25.5 | 19 | 13.5 | 12 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 53 Sarkozy 47 |
Ifop | 23 March2007 | [53] | 26 | 25 | 22 | 14.5 | 12.5 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
TNS-Sofres | 23 March2007 | [54] | 28 | 26.5 | 21.5 | 11 | 13 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
CSA | 22 March2007 | [55] | 26 | 26 | 21 | 13 | 14 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
BVA | 20 March2007 | [56] | 31 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 15 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ifop | 19 March2007 | [57] | 28 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 13 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46 |
Louis-Harris | 17 March2007 | [58] | 29 | 26 | 22 | 12.5 | 10.5 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48, Bayrou 57 Sarkozy 43 |
Ipsos | 17 March2007 | [59] | 29.5 | 25 | 21 | 12.5 | 12 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ifop | 17 March2007 | [60] | 26 | 24 | 22.5 | 14 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 51.5 Royal 48.5 |
TNS-Sofres | 15 March2007 | [61] | 31 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 11 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46, Bayrou 60 Royal 40 |
CSA | 14 March2007 | [62] | 27 | 26 | 21 | 14 | 12 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Ipsos | 14 March2007 | [63] | 28.5 | 24 | 23 | 13.5 | 13 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
BVA | 13 March2007 | [64] | 29 | 23 | 21 | 13 | 14 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49, Bayrou 55 Sarkozy 45 |
Louis-Harris | 10 March2007 | [65] | 28 | 26 | 22 | 13.5 | 10.5 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48, Bayrou 55 Sarkozy 45 |
Ipsos | 10 March2007 | [66] | 31 | 25.5 | 21.5 | 12.5 | 9.5 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5 |
Ifop | 9 March2007 | [67] | 28 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 13 | |
TNS-Sofres | 8 March2007 | [68] | 27 | 25.5 | 23 | 12 | 12 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
CSA | 7 March2007 | [69] | 26 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 11 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Ipsos | 7 March2007 | [70] | 32.5 | 27 | 19 | 12.5 | 9 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
BVA | 6 March2007 | [71] | 29 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 13 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 55 Sarkozy 45 |
Louis-Harris | 3 March2007 | [72] | 28 | 27 | 20 | 14 | 11 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
TNS-Sofres | 1 March2007 | [73] | 31 | 25.5 | 18.5 | 12 | 13 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ipsos | 28 February2007 | [74] | 32 | 25 | 18 | 12.5 | 10 | Sarkozy 53.5 Royal 46.5 |
CSA | 28 February2007 | [75] | 29 | 29 | 17 | 14 | 11 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
BVA | 27 February2007 | [76] | 31 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 13 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46, Bayrou 55 Royal 45 |
Louis-Harris | 24 February2007 | [77] | 30 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 13 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
Ifop | 23 February2007 | [78] | 28 | 28 | 17 | 11.5 | 15.5 | Sarkozy 50.5 Royal 49.5 |
BVA | 20 February2007 | [79] | 33 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 16 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48, Bayrou 54 Sarkozy 46, Bayrou 52 Royal 48 |
CSA | 20 February2007 | [80] | 28 | 29 | 17 | 14 | 13 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Louis-Harris | 17 February2007 | [81] | 33 | 25.5 | 14 | 13 | 15 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ipsos | 17 February2007 | [82] | 33 | 23 | 16 | 13 | 15 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ifop | 15 February2007 | [83] | 32 | 25.5 | 16 | 11 | 15.5 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
TNS-Sofres | 15 February2007 | [84] | 33 | 26 | 12 | 13 | 16 | Sarkozy 55 Royal 45 |
CSA | 12 February2007 | [85] | 33 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 15 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
BVA | 12 February2007 | [86] | 35 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 12 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Ipsos | 12 February2007 | [87] | 34 | 27 | 14 | 13 | 12 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Ifop | 12 February2007 | [88] | 33.5 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 16.5 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Louis-Harris | 10 February2007 | [89] | 31 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 17 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Louis-Harris | 3 February2007 | [90] | 33 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 18 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 3 February2007 | [91] | 34 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 15 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
TNS-Sofres | 1 February2007 | [92] | 32 | 26 | 13 | 12.5 | 18.5 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
CSA | 31 January2007 | [93] | 31 | 27 | 12 | 16 | 14 | Sarkozy 53 Royal 47 |
Ipsos | 27 January2007 | [94] | 35 | 26 | 11 | 11 | 17 | Sarkozy 54 Royal 46 |
Louis-Harris | 27 January2007 | [95] | 31 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 15.5 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
BVA | 23 January2007 | [96] | 33 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 17 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 20 January2007 | [97] | 32 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 15 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ifop | 20 January2007 | [98] | 32.5 | 28 | 12.5 | 11 | 16 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
CSA | 17 January2007 | [99] | 30 | 29 | 9 | 15 | 17 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ifop | 15 January2007 | [100] | 33 | 28 | 12 | 10 | 17 | Sarkozy 52 Royal 48 |
Ipsos | 7 January2007 | [101] | 33 | 32 | 10 | 12 | 13 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
Ifop | 5 January2007 | [102] | 25 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 25.5 | Royal 50.5 Sarkozy 49.5 |
CSA | 3 January2007 | [103] | 32 | 34 | 6 | 15 | 13 | Royal 52 Sarkozy 48 |
Ifop | 15 December2006 | [104] | 29 | 31 | 8 | 11 | 21 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
BVA | 12 December2006 | [105] | 32 | 35 | 8 | 9 | 16 | Royal 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Ipsos | 9 December2006 | [106] | 34 | 32 | 9 | 11.5 | 13.5 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
Ipsos | 2 December2006 | [107] | 35 | 31 | 8 | 12.5 | 14.5 | Sarkozy 51 Royal 49 |
Ifop | 1 December2006 | [108] | 30 | 31 | 9 | 12 | 18 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
CSA | 22 November2006 | [109] | 29 | 32 | 6 | 17 | 16 | Royal 53 Sarkozy 47 |
Ifop | 18 November2006 | [110] | 29 | 29 | 11 | 11 | 20 | Royal 51 Sarkozy 49 |
Ipsos | 11 November2006 | [111] | 34 | 30 | 8 | 10 | 18 | Sarkozy 50 Royal 50 |
TNS-Sofres | 9 November2006 | [112] | 34 | 34 | 7 | 13 | 12 | |
CSA | 8 November2006 | [113] | 30 | 29 | 7 | 15 | 19 | Royal 51 Sarkozy 49 |
CSA | 18 October2006 | [114] | 31 | 32 | 7 | 15 | 15 | Royal 52 Sarkozy 48 |
References
- ^ Decree n°2007-227 of February 21, 2007
- ^ 6 questions about the president
- ^ a b Decision of March 19, 2007, of the Constitutional Council
- ^ 3-way presidential race building in France
- ^ France's Le Pen 'to run' in poll, BBC
- ^ France's Jacques Chirac Backs Nicolas Sarkozy. 21 March 2007.
- ^ 11 French hopefuls make deadline
- ^ Chirac Backs Sarkozy in Poll Race
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Ségolène Royal, pour « l’ordre juste », L'Humanité, October 4, 2006; Les 100 proposiions de Ségolène Royal, Libération, 12 février 2007, proposition 52
- ^ April 2, 2007, Injunction by Isabelle Nicole, first vice-president of the Paris court of large claims
- ^ Reuters, April 2, 2007
- ^ Electoral code, article R27: "Posters and flyers, having an electoral goal or character, and including some combination of the three colours blue, white, and red (except the reproduction of an emblem of a party or political group), are prohibited"
- ^ Nicolas Sarkozy, Ensemble, Xo, 3 April 2007, ISBN 2845633459
- ^ M. Sarkozy et Mme Royal se rendent coup pour coup, Le Monde
- ^ Reuters, April 5, 2007
- ^ Law 77-808 of July 19, 1977, articl 11, as amended by law 2002-214 of February 19 2002