EUROPE: WHO WILL BE FRANCE'S PRESIDENT IN 2017?
Dozens of candidates are vying for the attention of French voters ahead of the presidential election on 23 April 2017.
If none wins an outright majority, there will be a run-off vote between the two leading candidates two weeks later on 7 May.
The centre-right Republicans have chosen Francois Fillon as their candidate, and opinion polls give him a lead of several percentage points over Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front (FN).
Manuel Valls leads the field of Socialists and other leftists competing to win the centre-left nomination in a primary vote in January.
Other potentially weighty contenders, according to the polls, include centrists Emmanuel Macron and Francois Bayrou (though Mr Bayrou has not yet declared), and radical leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon.
President Francois Hollande, a Socialist, is not seeking a second term. Polls suggest he is very unpopular.
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