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Paris, Oct 14 (EFE/EPA).- Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo was elected Thursday as the official Socialist Party presidential candidate after winning the primaries by 72 percent of the vote. French presidential election is scheduled to be held on Apr 10, 2022. (Camera: CHRISTOPHE PETIT-TESSON).B-ROLL OF THE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF THE LEFT-WING PARTY PRIMARIES AHEAD OF THE 2022 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IN PARIS, FRANCE.
The incumbent mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, candidate for re-election, votes in the second round of the municipal elections. IMAGES
The populist leader of the far-right Chega party, André Ventura, holds his last electoral rally in Lisbon before elections on March 10. As campaigning wraps up, polls are pointing to an edge for the centre-right after eight years of Socialist rule, and huge gains for the far-right. The Chega party is tipped to more than double the support it won in a 2022 election, putting its leader Ventura in line to become kingmaker in a new parliament. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in a Paris court as his appeal hearing opens against a conviction for illegal campaign financing in a failed 2012 re-election bid. IMAGES