PARIS (Reuters) - A clear majority of French centre-right voters want former president Nicolas Sarkozy to seek re-election in 2017 and his support has grown despite legal troubles facing him and his party, an opinion survey showed on Thursday.
The Ifop poll published by the Atlantico news web site showed that 60 percent of UMP opposition party supporters want Sarkozy, who lost a re-election bid to Socialist President Francois Hollande in 2012, to try again in 2017.
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