French head to polls in runoff vote

PARIS, June 16 (UPI) -- French voters began casting their ballots Sunday in legislative elections that are expected to hand President Jacques Chirac's center-right coalition

an absolute majority in Parliament. Indeed, the major uncertainties in this second-round of voting is whether many of the 41 million French voters will stay home this summery day, since a record 36 percent of voters abstained during the first legislative round, June 9.