''Two things stand out about the results of the first round of France’s presidential election, which was held yesterday: One is socialist candidate François Hollande’s narrow victory over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, which solidifies his position as the favorite to win the May 6 runoff election; the other is the robust performance by the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who came in third with a percentage of the vote surpassing even that achieved by her father in 2002—an outcome that shocked France because it placed him second ahead of Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin.
Hollande, 57, seeking to become the first socialist to win the presidency since Francois Mitterrand was re-elected in 1988, won 28.6 percent of the vote—one of the highest first-round tallies for the Left..''
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