Poll: Most prefer French left to Sarkozy for 2012

More than half of France's voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 election, a survey said on Sunday.

The survey to be published by Liberation newspaper on Monday, said 55% preferred either Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and a favorite of the centre-left, or Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry to any from the right. (Reuters)