Poll: Most French people think Obama elections is good for US

Barack ObamaParis - An overwhelming majority of the French people think that the election of Barack Obama is good for the image of the United States, according to a poll made public on Thursday.

In the survey, conducted by the OpinionWay institute for the daily Le Figaro, 85 per cent of respondents said that Obama's election as US president was either very good or good for the country's image.

That sentiment was the same across the entire French political spectrum, with even a majority of supporters of the anti-immigrant right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen agreeing with it.

Only 1 per cent of those asked in the survey said Obama's election was bad for the United States.

The poll also largely rejected claims by supporters of President Nicolas Sarkozy that he was "the French Obama."

While 18 per cent of respondents said Sarkozy was the French politician closest to the US president-elect - compared to 17 per cent for Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently head of the IMF - 38 per cent said no French politician was politically close to Obama. (dpa)

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