Manuel Valls and Benoit Hamon pose at a televised debate last week. Photo: Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFPFrance's Socialists voted on Sunday to pick their candidate for this year's presidential polls as a fresh scandal engulfed the election's conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon. Socialist voters headed to polling stations from Sunday morning for the primary run-off vote between leftwinger Benoit Hamon and centrist ex-prime minister Manuel Valls. The contest is being watched closely after Britain's vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump's victory in the United States. The top two candidates from the April 23 first round will go through to the final vote on May 7.

Source: The Local January 29, 2017 08:11 UTC