A slew of new polls conducted on the French presidential election shows Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande building a lead ahead there ahead of the first ballots are cast. France uses a two round system, which is an open contest in the first round (set for April 22nd), and if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates move on to the second round (May 6th). Polls show that Hollande and current French President Nicolas Sarkozy are likely to move on to the second round, where Hollande has a large lead. From Bloomberg:
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