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Economic constraints dampen French election promises

The French presidential election campaign has laid bare the decline in the nation's public finances and lack of wiggle room for next head of state.

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French voters will take the first steps Sunday toward selecting their next president, after a campaign that laid bare the decline in the nation's public finances and underscored that the next leader of the euro-zone's second-largest economy will have little wiggle room to fix them, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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