Analysis: Socialists Try To Keep Dominance (ap)

Supporters of the French Socialist Party cheer at the party's headquarters in Paris Sunday, March 14, 2010. The Socialist-led left is leading over France's President Nicolas Sarkozy conservative party in the first round of regional elections.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP – Fresh with a first-place showing in round one of regional elections over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing UMP party, France’s Socialists now have a week of deal-making with rival leftist parties to try to secure dominance in the upcoming runoff — and 2 1/2 years to transform its regional success into victory in the 2012 presidential vote.

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