Polls have opened in France's presidential run-off election that could result in the formation of a first socialist government in the European country in almost two decades.

People in France are set to cast their ballots on Sunday in presidential election run-off to choose between incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist leader Francois Hollande.

Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn has come under fresh pressure, as he is expected to face new allegations of sexual assault.

French ruling UMP party has proposed a new law in the parliament under which the country’s watchdogs will be granted less power and authority than what they enjoyed before, Press TV reports.

French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande and incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy are doing their final efforts to secure more votes ahead of Sunday’s run-off presidential election.

A French centrist leader and one-time ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will vote against him in the upcoming run-off presidential election.

Fresh evidence further proves allegations about ties between Libya's slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi and incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Press TV reports.

French presidential rivals have traded fire in a nationally televised debate ahead of Sunday's decisive runoff.

French presidential hopeful Francois Hollande has asked for an inquiry into suspected ties between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya’s slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lodged a lawsuit against an investigative website that claimed slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sought to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande and incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy have stepped up their campaigns in a bid to garner support from undecided voters.

Recent media claims that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sought to fund the French President Nicolas Sarkozy campaign in 2007 have hampered his hopes of re-election.

A new document has revealed that the election campaign of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 was to be funded by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been striving to garner the far-right National Front votes in a bid to win a second term in office as president, Press TV reports.

Incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will not make any deal with the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen who stood third in the first round of the presidential polls.

Incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s hopes for a second term wane as he garners a fewer number of votes compared to his socialist rival Francois Hollande in the first round of the 2012 presidential election, Press TV reports.

French Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has inconclusively beaten center-right incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in the country’s presidential race, exit polls show.

Registered voters in France begin to head to the polls in the first round of the country's presidential election that may bring an end to the rule of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The Muslim community in France is reportedly mobilizing voters to punish President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's presidential election.

French Presidential candidates have held their last campaigning rallies prior to the first round of the French presidential poll on Sunday, Press TV reports.

A new opinion poll in France indicates that Nicolas Sarkozy is viewed as the most unpopular president in French history, the least-liked just a week ahead of the first round of presidential elections in the country.

French Presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande hold rallies in the capital to drum up support a week prior to the first round of voting.

The French government has rejected a three-point plan by the European Union that aimed at tackling climate change, Press TV reports.

Fifteen men in France have accused French police of racial profiling, announcing they have been suing the government for discrimination.

French iron and steel workers have gathered in the capital Paris to protest against job cuts and a drop in state financial support for the steel industry, Press TV reports.

A nuclear reactor in France's northern Normandy area has been automatically shut down after two small fires broke out at the installation, the site’s operator firm reports.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised French voters to pass the so-called "Golden Rule" if re-elected, and to reduce the country’s deficit to zero by 2016.

The French government has ordered five Muslims to be deported as a part of an intensifying crackdown against Muslims in the country in recent weeks.

France has asked pro-Palestinian activists, who have organized a trip to the Israel-occupied West Bank this month, to stop their solidarity operation, saying they risk detention or expulsion by Israeli authorities, Press TV reports.

French and Italian newspapers say gunman Mohamed Merah involved in a shooting spree in Toulouse that killed 7 people may have been an informant for France’s intelligence services.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US.

The father of France’s suspected killer, Mohammed Merah, has hired a lawyer to sue the French police over his son’s death.

Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has admitted to police that he used inappropriate language regarding women he met at parties.

France has indicted Abdel-Kader Merah, the brother of suspected killer, Mohammed Merah, who was allegedly behind last week’s deadly shooting in the southwestern France city of Toulouse.

French Muslims have denounced the recent shootings of France’s suspected killer Mohamed Merah, saying that they will not tolerate being made a scapegoat for political gain.

France’s suspected killer Mohamed Merah has died after the police stormed his besieged apartment in the southern city of Toulouse.

A report says three blasts have been heard in the suburbs of Toulouse outside the hideout of a gunman suspected of killing seven people in the southwestern France city.

France has launched the greatest manhunt in its history for a suspected serial killer a day after four people were shot dead at a Jewish school in the country’s southwest.

The main suspects in Monday’s shooting at a Jewish school in southwest France, in which three children and an adult were killed, are three former paratroopers with neo-Nazi tendencies, according to the police.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called a deadly shooting spree that left four dead outside a Jewish school in the southwestern city of Toulouse a “national tragedy”.