The battle between Sarkozy and Hollande
continues.
The campaign officially ends at midnight
Friday, before the polling stations open on Sunday. The last votes can be made
at 6.00pm when the polling booths across France close.
The votes are then counted and the results are usually
available before 7.00pm. It is however, illegal to publish the results in France before
they are announced on French television at 8.00pm
However, neighbouring Belgium and Switzerland have a keen interest in
the forthcoming election results and are currently looking for loopholes in the
current legislation which prevents them from broadcasting these results until
8.00pm..
Add the speed of the internet to the
equation, along with France's 23 million Facebook and three million Twitter
accounts, and the law banning result predictions before 8:00pm appears
increasingly unworkable.
On French social networks, users were
discussing a variety of ways of getting around the embargo, including renaming
the candidates after countries and presenting the results as sports wins.
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