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February 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In an interview with Le Figaro last week, he made clear he will be pushing a conservative social agenda, vowing to oppose gay marriage and euthanasia and to restrict immigration.
In recent weeks he has also moved to shore up his reformist economic credentials, increasing the sales tax to reduce payroll charges and introducing a 0.1 per cent tax on financial transactions.
But his efforts so far have not translated into a boost in opinion polls.
An IFOP survey published on Tuesday found Hollande down by one percentage point but still well ahead with 30 per cent support and Sarkozy trailing with 25.5 per cent – up 0.5 per cent – in the first round.
Under this forecast, Hollande would be the clear winner in the second round with 57.5 per cent of the vote, against Sarkozy’s 42.5 per cent.
“The game is far from over. The polls, the comments, all this will be wiped away in the three weeks before the election,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon, a long-time Sarkozy ally, told Le Monde on Monday.
“He has maintained his close relationship with the French people. During the campaign he will find the words and ways to reach out to them.”
Hollande’s spokesman, Benoit Hamon, said on Monday the Socialist campaign was feeling “calm” ahead of the expected announcement and denounced Sarkozy as having a “narrow and stunted vision” of France’s future.
Others in the campaign however were warning of a tough battle.
“It will be violent, it will be brutal,” Hollande’s campaign director, Pierre Moscovici, said on Sunday, warning that Sarkozy “feels like he has his back to the wall and he will not back away from anything.”
As well as from the left, Sarkozy is facing a challenge from far-right candidate Marine Le Pen of the National Front, who is polling between 16 and 20 per cent and hopes to knock him out in the first round.
A source close to Sarkozy told Le Figaro the team was counting on a quick bounce in the polls. “If he has not gained three points in the next two weeks, things will get difficult,” the source admitted.
Source: AFP
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