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Credit: Reuters/Benoit Tessier By Catherine Bremer PARIS | Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:04am EST PARIS (Reuters) - France's conservatives will elect a new leader on Sunday who will determine whether the party ousted in May from a 17-year presidential reign will hold to the centre or move to the right in a quest to regain power in 2017. Moderate ex-prime minister Francois Fillon, who regularly tops political popularity polls, is tipped to narrowly beat Jean-Francois Cope, a disciple of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and his hard stance on issues including immigration. Yet with two thirds of UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) members wanting Sarkozy to return for the 2017 election, the result will be close and a Fillon victory would not completely bury an existential crisis in the opposition party. Socialist President Francois Hollande has a clear majority in parliament and controls most French regions, but a slump in his ratings is giving the right an audience. Fillon, an urbane 58-year-old, appeals more to centre-ground voters disillusioned with Hollande's left-wing policies, such as tax hikes on high-earners. Cope, a more polarizing figure, is playing to the nearly one in five people who voted for the far-right National Front in the first election round in May, betting that rampant unemployment will keep tensions high over immigration. The gulf between them reflects a split in a party founded by former President Jacques Chirac in 2002 to group several centre-right parties and carry on the legacy of post-war leader Charles de Gaulle, who sought to transcend the left-right rift. The UMP is still smarting from losing the Senate, the presidency and the lower house within months of each other. "There are two political lines here," Fillon said this week. "One makes the UMP narrower, the other, mine, seeks to widen it, or at least preserve the project of the UMP's founders to keep within the same family values which go from the centre through to the party's right," he told Le Figaro daily. NO HANG-UPS Cope, mayor of a town near Paris who speaks in the same brash way Sarkozy does and can be more provocative, alleged recently that city suburbs brim with "anti-white" racism. He irked many inside his party by making much of a one-off incident where a boy had his pain au chocolat pastry snatched from him by Muslim youths during the Ramadan fasting period. "I am the tenant of a right which does not have hang-ups, which tells the truth and is comfortable with itself," Cope told Le Figaro in an interview alongside Fillon's. "No taboos, no stonewalling. France has far fewer complexes than its politicians have," he said, stating his values as authority, courage and measured generosity. 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