epa02969374 Francois Hollande, winner of the Socialist Party (PS) 2011 primary vote for France’s 2012 presidential election, talks to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Paris, France, 16 October 2011. Hollande will be the main challenger of incumbent leader Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s French presidential elections after winning the nomination of the opposition Socialist Party in the runoff round of a party primary. Hollande, who led the Socialists from 1997 to 2008 and is currently a parliamentarian representing the central Correze region,
won 56.41 per cent of votes out of 1.94 million votes counted, partial results showed. Mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, who succeeded him as party leader in
2008, won 43.59 per cent. EPA/IAN LANGSDON
