Combo photo of twelve candidates who stand in France's first round presidential election vote on April...
France's Constitutional Council announced in Paris March 19, 2007 that twelve candidates will contest next month's first round presidential election vote on April 22 during a news conference. Candidates include, from L-R, top row: Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) leader Olivier Besancenot, Communist (PCF) Party's Marie-George Buffet, far-left Workers' Party Gerard Schivardi, UDF centrist party's Francois Bayrou. Second row : radical farmer Jose Bove, Green Party's Dominique Voynet, French Movement For France Party (MPF) Philippe de Villiers, Socialist Party's (PS) Segolene Royal. Bottom row : CPNT Frederic Nihous, far-right National Front's (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen, extreme-left workers party Lutte Ouvriere's (LO) Arlette Laguiller, and Conservative UMP party's Nicolas Sarkozy. REUTERS/Files (FRANCE). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.