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...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--in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses, rally...
More trouble overseas: amid rising incidents of anti-Semitism, French voters catapult the hard-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen into a presidential runoff election. The consequences for the rest of Europe are huge...
...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 and a slot in the runoff against Presidential incumbent Jacques Chirac, Jospin prepared to announce his immediate resignation from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening’s speech reflected the gravest...
...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 - in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses, rally...
...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 past Socialist Lionel Jospin to face center-right Chirac in the runoff - promised another electoral shock, Chirac refused to debate him. Stating that Le Pen's "intolerance and hatred" made that impossible, Chirac said France's situation was grave, with "its soul, its cohesion, its role in Europe and the world" at stake...