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Candidates under pressure - to make debate less dull

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In Wednesday's French papers: calls for the Socialists to get their claws out and make tonight's TV debate a bit more interesting, the Bettencourt case rumbles on, and Angela Merkel is under fire.

IN THE PAPERS
By Elena CASAS

The six candidates for the Socialist nomination for the French presidency are debating again tonight - but Le Parisien says if it's as boring as the last one, the voters will switch off.

The Liliane Bettencourt case is back on the front page of Libération - they've interviewed the accountant who started the scandal with those "envelopes of cash" accusations last year.

And Angela Merkel makes the front pages of La Tribune and Les Echos - the first says she has a secret plan to spin off Greek assets into a European fund, the second that she's incoherent and has lost support with German voters.

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