(Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many supporters of the French Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) would prefer current interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy as their presidential candidate in 2007, according to a poll by Ifop published in Le Journal du Dimanche. 69 per cent of respondents think Sarkozy would be the best candidate for the centre-right political organization.

Current prime minister Dominique de Villepin is second with 19 per cent, followed by current president Jacques Chirac with nine per cent.

In November, Sarkozy was elected president of the UMP. He took over as interior minister in June after Chirac enacted a cabinet shuffle following the rejection of the European Constitution in a nationwide plebiscite.

Chirac won the presidential ballot in 1995, and was re-elected in a run-off over Jean-Marie Le Pen in May 2002. The next election is tentatively scheduled for April 2007.

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