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France’s Sarkozy hunts far-right votes after Socialist win

Nicolas Sarkozy Monday went gunning for more than six million far-right votes in a bid to catch up with Socialist Francois Hollande who took the lead in round one of the French presidential election. But it looked increasingly unlikely that the leader of the anti-immigrant National Front, Marine Le Pen.