06-02-2017 19:07 via news.yahoo.com

Place your French election bets - Hollande for a comeback?

By Alistair Smout and Matthias Blamont LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential elections has become so unpredictable that gamblers are betting on a second term for the sitting president, even though he bowed out of the contest last year and his party has since picked another candidate. British bookmakers reopened the market for bets on the deeply unpopular Socialist President Francois Hollande due to demand from customers. "People are much more willing to put a few pounds on the outsider
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