Latest update : 2012-04-30
Who owns Labour Day?
Nicolas Sarkozy is set to pit himself against France's powerful unions with rival demonstrations on May Day - a move calculated to stir the ire of the left.
Liberation is furious at Sarkozy's plan to host a counter-rally aimed directly at the annual unions' march - and point out that many on the right see this as an unnecessary provocation.
Le Figaro puts someone who's meant to be far away from this presidential race on the front page - Dominique Strauss Kahn - as frallegations of a stitch-up mean he makes the news again, much to the socialists' discomfort.