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FRANCE Peaceful Protests In a Fierce Campaign May Day marchers had their eyes on election day as an estimated 1.3 million people took to the streets across the country to protest the presidential candidacy of the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. As center-right President Jacques Chirac appeared...
Late in the evening on Monday, April 23, harrowed by his defeat in the first round of the French presidential elections, the Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stood before a distraught crowd of supporters. As he had failed to outpoll right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen for second place...
But even given Jospin's weakness as a candidate, it was still a shock when he got fewer votes in the first round of the election than Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front. Le Pen will now meet President Jacques Chirac - a mainstream conservative...
Person of the Week HARD RIGHT He was dismissed as nothing more than a fringe figure, but ultra-conservative French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen showed that his anti-immigrant, anti-E.U. stance has worrying appeal when he earned the right to run off against Jacques Chirac in France...
FRANCE Scrambling to Save The Country's Soul After the earthquake, the rescue work. French political leaders rallied behind President Jacques Chirac to crush the far-right National Front's candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the second round of presidential voting on May 5. While Le Pen - who edged...