Sarkozy's fate was ultimately sealed by the decision of supporters of Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National Front party not to vote for him in the second round of the French presidential election.
Bayrou accused Sarkozy of lurching to the extreme right in the past two weeks of campaigning, as he attempts to appeal to the 6.5 million first-round supporters of the far-right National Front party, BFM-TV reported.
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In an interview with French television on Monday, he also alleged that the former head of the far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, funded part of his 1988 presidential campaign with money from Gabon's late ex-president Omar Bongo, AFP reports.
Her National Front party -- founded and, until last year, led by her father -- has been known for anti-euro, protectionist policies, its stringent positions on curbing immigration and other more right-wing stances that would appear to jive more closely with the views of Sarkozy than Hollande.
Five Polish men have been convicted of carrying out the theft on behalf of a Swedish man, Anders Hoegstroem, who helped found the far-right National Socialist Front party in Sweden in 1994.
The woman whose work caused an uproar with the Front National party in France in 2012 (Madonna) is not on the list.
The exact margin of victory could prove important, however, and could potentially leave Mr. Najib vulnerable to a leadership challenge from within the United Malays National Organization, the main party in the National Front.
And an opinion poll conducted by BVA-Absoluce suggested that 52% of voters now saw the National Front as a "party like the others".
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"The whole Atlantic seaboard from Normandy to the Pyrenees is missionary territory for the National Front, " says local party leader Jean-Marc de Lacoste-Lareymondie.
He publicly rebuked his daughter Chantal for criticising the National Front, a right-wing party.
Anti-immigration parties such as France's National Front and Austria's Freedom Party were well-established long before the aircraft crashed into the twin towers.
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Yet popularity alone cannot guarantee Mr. Najib's survival as head of the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), the party that forms the linchpin of the National Front.
Tuesday was billed as a test of Mr. Romney's national reach as the party's front-runner, as well as a measure of whether Messrs.
The National Front is the third-largest political party in France.
Fortuyn himself insisted that he was no racist, and bitterly dissented from comparisons between his party and France's National Front.
In 1985, the National Front, France's far-right party, was already gathering over a quarter of the vote in local elections here.
When five regional presidents in France, each from the mainstream right, were elected in 1998 thanks to pacts with the far-right National Front, all were instantly expelled from their party.
In Sunday's cantonal elections, the National Front won at least two cantons, though the party's share of the vote decreased from 15% in the first round of voting the previous weekend.
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The National Front in France (see article) and the Freedom Party in the Netherlands have been especially adept in exploiting the latent feelings of resentment against immigrants.
But Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the Constitution Party and a member of the National Salvation Front, reiterated two demands before the front would engage in dialogue: the formation of a new government and a committee to amend the constitution.
But a complicating factor is that his party is allied to Funcinpec through the National United Front, formed early last year.
Yet his 13-party United Front coalition could not agree on a host of national issues.
Correspondents say he sought to move the party to the right to wrest back votes from the extreme-right National Front (FN).
Hollande told the daily Liberation newspaper ahead of the runoff that he saw the strong showing for the National Front as an expression of people's "social anger" rather than a firm adherence to the party's more extremist views.
Socialist Francois Hollande, who is favored to win on May 6, told France's daily Liberation newspaper that he saw the strong showing for the National Front as an expression of people's "social anger" rather than a firm adherence to the party's more extremist views.
Mr. Najib replaced former leader Mr. Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
Mr. Najib himself replaced former leader Abdullah Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
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