French voters prepare to go to polls
France’s presidential election tomorrow is a ground-breaker – a choice between an immigrant’s son and an army officer’s daughter, each offering a radically different vision of how to put a dispirited nation back on track.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both mavericks who changed the rules of French politics and energised an electorate hungry for change. Their rise marks a generational shift, because whoever wins will be the nation’s first president born after the Second World War.
