Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are to meet face to face for a TV debate that could decide Sunday's French presidential election. "I think it will be decisive," said former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, author of the memorable put-down, "You don't have a monopoly of the heart," in the 1974 presidential election debate with his rival Francois Mitterrand. "I think I was elected because of this debate," he told RTL radio on Wednesday.
The two-hour encounter will be screened simultaneously by France's two biggest television channels from 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) and is expected to be watched by nearly half the country's 44.5 million voters. |