Socialists nominate presidential candidate - People's Daily Online

Segolene Royal was hoping to wrap up the nomination to lead France's Socialists into next year's presidential election quickly with party members across the country voting in an unprecedented primary yesterday. Outright victory in the first round would boost Royal's campaign to become France's first woman president and underline her opinion poll status as the only Socialist capable of beating the right's frontrunner Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2007 ballot. Royal, 53, who has enjoyed a huge opinion ...