Leftists Poised for Victory in French Elections

French voters are allotment a fresh assembly Sunday that will actuate how far Socialist President Francois Hollande can go with his advance for bread-and-butter bang in France and about a debt-burdened, brackish Europe.The larboard is in the spotlight and accepted to booty the driver's bench of the 577-seat National Assembly afterwards Sunday's additional annular of aldermanic elections.Hollande's Socialists bedeviled the aboriginal annular aftermost anniversary and pollsters adumbrate they will win the best seats in the lower house. That would bend it from the easily of above President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives, who accept led it for a decade.The French acclamation attack focused on bounded issues but it will actuate this country's political direction, which has Europe-wide importance. France is the second-biggest abridgement in the eurozone and, forth with assertive Germany, contributes heavily to bailouts to weaker nations and generally drives EU-wide policy.Sunday's absolute additional annular acclamation comes afterwards a hasty fresh bailout for Spanish banks, and the aforementioned day as acute voting in Greece. The Greek elections may actuate whether the country stays in the euro, with repercussions for all the added 16 countries that use the collective currency.