French political leadership vote ends with no clear winner

Published Friday November 21st, 2008

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS - A French Socialist Party official says a vote to pick a new opposition leader is ending with no clear winner.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Remy de la Mauviniere

Segolene Royal, right, one of the two candidates who is campaigning to become head of France's Socialist Party stands in the pooling booth to vote, in Melle, central France, Friday Nov. 21, 2008.

Former interior minister Daniel Vaillant said former presidential candidate Segolene Royal and Martine Aubry, the architect of the country's 35-hour work week, were neck-in-neck with almost 100 per cent of party members' votes counted.

The Socialists' national secretary Razzy Hamadi had says the polls appeared to narrowly favour Aubry.

Royal's camp, however, refused to concede the race.

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