Infighting in Nicolas Sarkozy’s party spells defeat at parliament elections

According to the Opinionway poll, the UMP would garner 31 per cent of the vote
with Marine Le Pen’s FN tallying 16 per cent.

While this would give the right biggest proportion of the vote, the UMP has
ruled out any alliance with the FN even though polls have shown most of its
voters are open to such a deal.

Mr Sarkozy’s prime minister, Francois Fillon, now replaced by an interim
Socialist prime minister in place at least until the parliamentary election,
stirred hostilities within his own party on Wednesday when he said the UMP
had “no natural leader”.

His comments, undermining UMP boss Jean-Francois Cope, could be the first
shots in a battle to be the next conservative presidential candidate.

If candidates poll more than 12.5 per cent in the first round, they move on to
the June 17 run-off. Were candidates from the National Front, Left and UMP
all to qualify, the ensuing three-way contest would be won with a simple
majority.

The survey was based on interviews with 1,836 adults carried out between May
23-25.

Source: Reuters

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