PROSPECTS 2006: France's presidential race hots up

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  • Lame-duck Chirac
  • Political weakness
  • Physical weakness
  • Residual power
  • The Left
  • Socialists
  • Communists, Greens, Trotskyists
  • Villepin vs Sarkozy
  • Villepin
  • Policy record
  • Statist persona
  • Sarkozy
  • Control of the UMP
  • Popularity on the Right

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