Strauss-Kahn Would Beat Sarkozy in French Election, Poll Shows
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy would lose to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn or the Socialist Party’s current leader, Martine Aubry, if elections were held now, a CSA poll showed.
Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, would win 30 percent of the vote in the first round of a presidential election were he the Socialist candidate, compared with 23 percent for Sarkozy, CSA said today. A run-off that eliminates other candidates would see Strauss-Kahn prevail over Sarkozy by 64 percent to 36 percent, the poll showed.