French conservatives choose candidate for 2017 presidential election

By Marine Pennetier and Pascale Antonie PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative voters were choosing their candidate on Sunday in a primary contest whose winner is seen as the likely victor in next spring's presidential election. With the French left in disarray under the deeply unpopular President Francois Hollande, pollsters suggest that the center-right presidential nominee will meet and defeat the National Front's eurosceptic, anti-immigration leader Marine Le Pen in a vote next May. ...