Rfi. France.
Voting in the deciding round of France’s presidential election started on Saturday on a group of islands off Canada. Mainland France votes Sunday with Socialist challenger François Hollande showing a narrow lead in the polls over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Voting started at midday Saturday in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, an archipelago in the north Atlantic near Canada. French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and French citizens on the American continent will then be able to cast their votes, followed by French territories in the Pacfic and Indian Oceans.