Fading Sarkozy holds campaign rally

More than 50,000 people were expected to attend the Sunday rally in an exhibition hall at Villepinte north of Paris, as the election clock ticks down with only six weeks to go.

Battling for a second term in office, Sarkozy has been faltering in opinion polls well behind the front-running Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, since he officially launched his re-election bid on February 15.

On Thursday, The incumbent said that he will give up politics if he fails in the vote on April 22 and May, adding that his Socialist challenger has a worrying “dearth of experience” for such troubled times.

A recent poll by CSA showed Hollande would beat Sarkozy with 56 percent of the vote in a second round runoff May 6.

Earlier in the week, Sarkozy said that France has too many foreigners and the system for integrating them was “working worse and worse”. Critics accused him of competing for the votes of the far right.

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