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Far-right to decide France's fate

AFP, Paris
The 6.4 million French who voted for anti-immigrant , anti-European Marine Le Pen of the National Front have become the surprise kingmakers in the second round of the presidential elections.
Le pen's party took almost 18% of the vote, according to official results that put Hollande at 29% and Sarkozy on 27%.
Knowing their fate may rest in the hands of the 18 percent of voters, both candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist rival Francois Hollande stepped up their battle yesterday to woo the 6 million far- right votes.
Both leaders will now square off in a final round on May 6 that opinion polls say the Socialist will win.
The election has laid bare deep French fears over globalisation, the European debt crisis and austerity measures aimed at stemming it, and national identity.
Hollande gave a lengthy interview to
Liberation to explain that the massive FN vote was the expression of "social anger" and that he hoped to be able to bring these millions of disgruntled voters back to the mainstream.
He said voters identified Sarkozy with the European Union's free-market ideology and the austerity measures the bloc has imposed across the continent to try and contain its lingering debt crisis.
Sarkozy meanwhile continued to step up the right-wing rhetoric he has deployed during his campaign to try to woo FN voters.
At a rally in Longjumeau in the Paris suburbs, he hammered home the themes he has pushed for months — protecting "the French way of life," reducing immigration and encouraging hard work.
Le Pen has said that at that march she will
give her "opinion" to her supporters on whom to back in the decisive second vote, but analysts say it is unlikely she will endorse either candidate.
Polls show that most far-right supporters prefer Sarkozy butuptoaquar-ter -- mainly working-class voters attracted by Le Pen's protectionist trade policies -- could switch to Hollande.
The French left has not won a presidential election in a quarter of a century, but with France mired in low growth and rising joblessness, opinion polls had long predicted Hollande would beat Sarkozy.