PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy ruled out any alliance with the far-right National Front of Marine Le Pen, backed by one in five voters in the first round of the presidential election, that would give it cabinet jobs or seats in parliament. An opinion poll this week showed two-thirds of Sarkozy supporters want his conservative UMP party to break with past policy and strike a deal with the Front after Le Pen’s 17.9 percent score on Sunday made her 6.4 million backers key to the May 6 presidential election runoff. …
Originally posted here: France’s Sarkozy rules out deal with far right
