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May 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Le Parisien found that there was no clear winner in a “harsh debate” that was “very tense and very technical” but which “lived up to all expectations”.
“Nicolas Sarkozy hoped to ‘explode’ his adversary. He showed himself to be very pugnacious but didn’t manage (to knock him down),” it wrote.
“Hollande, who had prepared for a ‘rough’ debate, came across as more precise and more solid than (Sarkozy) had imagined”.
On paper, this draw serves the favourite in the opinion polls (Hollande), to the incumbent’s detriment.”
Left-leaning Libération predictably thought Hollande wiped the floor, headlining: “Hollande presides the debate”.
“Obliged to attack, (Sarkozy) didn’t manage to unseat the Socialist candidate, who responded blow for blow”.
“The Socialist kept bringing the incumbent president back to his record, then developed his proposals, which conferred an authority that often irritated his adversary”.
Damon Mayaffre, a linguist specialised in political discourse, said that “on a lexical level, its the most violent debate ever heard (in France).
There were very, very strong words. There was a shift from political discourse to insults.”
More neutral on its front page, conservative Le Figaro said both candidates “offered two visions of French society in a tense atmosphere”.
But the editorial was predictably harsh with Hollande. Entitled “the old-timer and the modernist”, Paul-Henri Limbert’s piece said the Socialist had tried to depict Sarkozy as “the ideal guilty man” and to show him the door like all other European leaders facing elections since the economic crisis struck in 2008.
“But they didn’t have opposite them Francois Hollande, with his outdated language and his disparate Left”.
Hollande “speaks the Socialist language fluently – one that has not been spoken in Europe for a long time. Taxation, redistrubution and off we go.
This programme has the merit of being simple, but it probably came across as a little weak in the eyes of many viewers”.
The paper spent the evening in Sarkozy’s UMP camp, where there were roars of approval when their champion said: “More taxes, more contributions, more spending, more deficits!”.
The candidates themselves returned to the airwaves this morning. In a bid to convince waverers before campaigning ends at midnight on Friday, Sarkozy appealed to the nearly one-fifth of voters who cast their ballot for the National Front in the April 22 first round.
“The opinion polls are lying. An election has never been this open … It’s even more open after the debate,” he told RTL radio.
“I want to speak directly to National Front voters. Who would benefit if you cast a blank vote? It would benefit Hollande, the regularisation of (illegal) immigrants, crazy overspending.”
“I thought it would be bitter and it was… but the debate was about my proposals,” said Hollande.
Two days before campaigning ends on Friday night, the run-off candidates are today to hold their final major rallies on friendly ground: Toulon in the southeast for Sarkozy and Toulouse in the southwest for Hollande.
Centrist presidential candidate Francois Bayrou, who won 3.3 million votes in the first round, is to say later today which candidate he backs.
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