Francois Hollande: Right National Front

Campaign Dept: For the first time in the campaign, a poll suggests the long-unpopular president could beat Socialist Francois Hollande in the first round of voting next month but it, like all previous polls, indicates Hollande would win in the crucial runoff, according to CBC. The conservative leader has shifted visibly to the right in his campaign, with calls for a crackdown on immigration and criticizing measures accommodating French Muslims. He's trying to tap votes from the resurgent far right National Front and its candidate Marine Le Pen and french President Nicolas Sarkozy heard his first welcome news in a while Tuesday in his battle for re-election. Sarkozy publicly shrugged off the new estimates and the campaign remains full of uncertainties. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.