PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential election looks set to become a straight fight between Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy after both widened the gap with other contenders over the past month, a poll showed Sunday. The survey by pollsters LH2 showed Hollande extended his lead over Sarkozy for the first electoral round on April 22 to 8.5 percentage points versus a 4.5 point gap three weeks ago. Hollande scored 34 percent against the president's 25.5 percent, according to the poll carried out for website Yahoo! on February 3 and 4. ...

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