Sarkozy Loses Ground to Hollande as Le Pen, Bayrou Gain in Poll
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is losing ground against Socialist Francois Hollande in their battle for the French leadership as candidates from smaller parties garnered more support, a poll showed.
Sarkozy would get 23 percent of votes and Hollande 30.5 percent in a first round of the election on April 22. The gap between the two candidates widened to 7.5 percentage points in the survey conducted on March 2-3 from six points on Feb. 19, the poll published today by LH2 poll for Yahoo! showed.