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  Socialist Hollande triumphs in French presidential poll
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Last EditedAshley  May 06, 2012 01:21pm
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AuthorJoseph Bamat
MediaTV News - France 24
News DateSunday, May 6, 2012 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFrançois Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday.

According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.9% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy’s 48.1%.

Hollande triumphed in the task of returning the Socialists to power five years after his then-partner Segolene Royal, the party’s nominee in 2007, lost to Sarkozy.
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