France 2007
Yearbook 2007 France. In January, the Union Government for a People's Movement (UMP) appointed Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as its candidate for the presidential election. Sitting President Jacques Chirac announced in March that he would not run for a third term. Sarkozy's main opponent was the Socialist Party's Ségolène Royal, but the temperature of the electoral movement rose when opinion polls in the spring showed an increasing support for François Bayrou, candidate for the bourgeois middle party Union for French Democracy (UDF). According to abbreviationfinder: FR is the 2-letter acronym for the country of France. In the first round of elections in April, Sarkozy won with 31 percent of the vote against 26 percent for Royal. Bayrou gained almost 19 percent and in fourth place came second in the last…