Latest polls show Sarkozy gaining on Hollande
As France’s two main rivals for the presidency both campaigned on French television, latest opinion polls put them neck and neck for the April first-round vote.
One poll even had President Nicolas Sarkozy coming out on top although he was still forecast to lose the all important second round in May.
“We will apply the same measures like the Americans do – tax linked to nationality,” said President Sarkozy. “Any tax exile, that is to say, anyone who has gone abroad for the sole purpose of avoiding having to pay French tax, will have to declare to the French administration the sum of what he paid in taxes abroad and if it is lower than what he would have paid at home in France, he must pay the difference.”
Both Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande are trying to win back voters tempted by the political extremes. After Sarkozy played the immigration card on Sunday, Hollande attacked his threat to pull out of Europe’s open-border Shengen zone: “He has no policies, he has not presented any programme of his own proposals, so he tries to improvise, and the latest improvised proposal is to review the Schengen treaty or even leave the zone entirely.”
http://www.euronews.com/2012/03/13/latest-polls-show-sarkozy-gaining-on-hollande/
Looks like Sarkozy is having some success playing to the far-right in order to win votes away from the National Front. He and the Socialist Hollande looked destined to face each other in the final round of presidential voting and the polling on that round still looks good.
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