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...first round of elections on April 24, Mitterrand won 34.1 percent of the vote to lead a field of nine candidates. Chirac was second with 19.9 percent...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right National Front, won an astonishing 14.4 percent of the vote in the first round. He said in a bitter statement yesterday that the traditional right was "the stupidest right in the world...
...television lights glared, the survivors of the first round of France's presidential election faced each other last week in a 2-hr. 20-min. debate watched by some 30 million citizens. Billed as the high point of the electoral campaign, the duel between Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Neo- Gaullist Premier Jacques Chirac produced no clear-cut winner. The dislike was almost palpable, however, between the two men who had been cohabiting, in French parlance, as government leaders for the past two years. During an exchange in which each candidate attempted to suggest that the other was soft...
...Chirac appeared the more aggressive of the rivals, it was because he badly needed to win the debate. Mitterrand could settle for a draw. In the first round of presidential balloting on April 24, he emerged with 34% of the vote, putting him, as expected, far ahead of Chirac, who won 19.9%. That made the incumbent the odds-on favorite in the May 8 second-round runoff...
...Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of the ultra-rightist, anti-immigrant National Front. With 14.5% of the vote, Le Pen finished just behind former Premier Raymond Barre, with 16.5%, but well ahead of the once mighty Communist Party, whose candidate, Andre Lajoinie, won just 6.8% in the first round. In the process, Le Pen's movement seemed to have replaced the Communists as the major vehicle for protest voters. Le Pen thus became a durable force and pivotal arbiter of France's now divided right...