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	French presidential election, 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002, and a runoff election between the top two candidates (Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen) on 5 May 2002.
		Journalists and politicians then claimed that polls had failed to predict his second place finish in the general election, though Le Pen's strong stance could be seen in the week prior to the election.
		The first round of election came as a shock to many commentators, almost all of whom had expected the second ballot to be between Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_presidential_election,_2002 (776 words)

	Politics of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French electorate turned down a 1969 referendum on the reform of the French Senate, in a move widely considered to be mostly motivated by weariness with de Gaulle.
		On May 29, 2005, French voters in the referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe turned down the proposed charter by a wide margin.
		In comparison, the refusal of the French electorate to vote for the proposed European Constitution was interpreted by some as a popular refusal of libéralisme, which the European Union is perceived to embody.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_France (1956 words)

	CNN.com - Chirac landslide against Le Pen - May 6, 2002
		Jacques Chirac claimed the largest margin of victory ever in the French presidential election as he defeated far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in a landslide.
		French observers are now looking forward parliamentary elections and to seeing what impact the Le Pen phenomenon will have.
		Those elections, held in two rounds on June 9 and 16, will determine the colour of the next government and may end the former "cohabitation" between a conservative president and a socialist prime minister.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/05/france.win (908 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| French Election Has Lessons For Us All
		The results of the French Presidential election are the latest, and perhaps most significant sign, that the shifts in global politics following September 11 are much greater than anyone on the left predicted.
		The failure of the French left to move to the second round in a run off election for the first time since 1969 is a serious sign of the weakness of the left in face of the militarization of corporate globalization.
		During the election Le Pen told Le Monde that no new mosques should be built in France (with a population of 6 million Moslems) until Saudi Arabia allows the construction of a Christian church.
	www.zmag.org /content/Activism/rebick_frenchelections.cfm (951 words)

	Jacques Chirac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was elected President of the French Republic in 1995 and 2002 (in addition inherently being Co-Prince of Andorra).
		In 1974 Chirac was appointed minister of the As minister of the interior from March 1974 he was entrusted by President Pompidou preparations for the presidential election then scheduled 1976.
		In the election of 2002 he opposed controversial right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen of the anti-immigrant National Front and won re-election by a landslide.
	www.freeglossary.com /Jacques_Chirac (1779 words)

	President of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The President of France known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French) is France 's elected Head of State.
		Unlike many other European presidents the office the French President is quite a powerful especially in matters of foreign policy although it is the prime minister and his gouvernement that are formally expected to run country.
		since the French National Assembly has the power to dismiss the Minister's gouvernement the president is forced to name prime minister that is agreeable to the of this assembly; this leads to political cohabitation.
	www.freeglossary.com /President_of_France (1331 words)

	May 2002 Newsletter - Americans in France
		The Monday after the April 21 election I was out walking with my wife and one year old son, in the old part of Strasbourg, the city in witch we live.
		French TV nightly is filled with the crimes of the day, this dose not make people feel as, as I can attest.
		Nanterre- This event, the killing 8 people for no known reason by a menially ill man, was gold for Le Pen, after Nanterre Le Pen was seen by the French, polls showed, as the person the most capable of dealing with the number one issue in the presidential election, crime.
	www.americansinfrance.net /Newsletter/Letter_May_2002.cfm (886 words)

	TNI Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		French voters could no longer tolerate this nonsense, they said.
		Segments of Russia's intellectual and political establishment took Le Pen's success as a sign that their side was winning, that it's now OK to come out of the shadows and openly proclaim racist principles formerly reserved "for internal consumption".
		In 1995 the general strike and an outpouring of support for the left demonstrated that France was not happy with privatization and the dismantling of the welfare state.
	www.tni.org /archives/kagarlitsky/french.htm (726 words)

	The French presidential election: What the figures reveal
		Surveys published since the first round of voting in the French presidential election make possible a more precise analysis of the result, which allowed the neo-fascist National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to emerge as the challenger in the second round to the current French president, Gaullist Jacques Chirac.
		The PCF presidential candidate, Robert Hue, first came to prominence two decades ago when, as mayor of one suburb, he led a vigilante attack on an immigrant workers’ hostel, claiming it was a source of crime.
		There are only two possible solutions to the crisis of bourgeois democratic institutions expressed in the election result: a right-wing, fascist outcome, as personified by Le Pen, or a left-wing, socialist one, which means that the working class takes the initiative to become the dominant force in society.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/vote-a27.shtml (1910 words)

	Bear Left!: French Lessons
		The results show that Chirac won the election with just under 20% of the vote, and that Le Pen edged Jospin by under one percent of the votes cast.
		A second lesson from the French results is the risk of alienating a party's natural constituency.
		A third lesson from the French election is that moving left or right on the political spectrum is less important than mobilizing voters.
	www.bear-left.com /original/2002/0428french.html (1075 words)

	French culture \| news \| Highlights 2002 : Books, Literature and Academia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Corbin is a leading figure among French historians who have concentrated on "ordinary people." Known for his originality and iconoclastic work, Corbin is the author of The Foul and the Fragrant, The Lure of the Sea, and, most recently, Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in Nineteenth-Century French Countryside.
		And last but certainly not least, the Institute of French Studies at NYU is planning a conference in November on the 2002 Election Year in France.
		French and American political scientists will explore the results of the previous spring's 2002 presidential and legislative elections.
	www.frenchculture.org /news/02launch/highlightsbook2002.html (467 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		February 20 - In most of the world, at 20:02 (8:02 PM) the local time, date (written as day/month), time, and year are all 2002, making each of them alone, any 2 together, and the combination of all 3, all palindromes.
		April 21 - The first round of the French presidential election, 2002 results is a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
		May 5 - In the second round of the French presidential election, Jacques Chirac is reelected.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/2002 (5212 words)

	The French Presidential Election: An Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (founded by General Charles de Gaulle in 1958), the presidency is the key-stone of French institutions.
		Presidential elections are dramatic moments in the country's democratic life: the people of the Republic choses by direct universal suffrage the incarnation of its sovereignty for five years.
		In this election, despite signs that the main party candidates are not inspiring voters and the somewhat unexpected popularity of the Citizens' Movement leader Jean-Pierre Chevènement, there is little doubt that the final competitors will be conservative President Jacques Chirac and his socialist Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/cuse/analysis/lettere_20020301.htm (401 words)

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		In particular, any claim that monotonicity failure is a practical problem, and that the 2002 French election provides an empirical example of it, rests by necessity on data that is both unobserved and counterfactual.
		Because in simple plurality elections votes cast for trailing candidates (expected to place third or lower) are almost certainly "wasted," voters who sincerely prefer such candidates have an incentive to vote "tactically" for whichever of the two leading candidates they relatively prefer.
		It might be said that the French Presidential election has little relevance to the question of possible changes in the method of holding U. Presidential elections, because the U.S. has never experienced such an extensive field of candidates (16 names on the ballot) as the French election did in 2002.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~nmiller/POLI325/FRENCH.htm (2175 words)

	TENSION GROWS AS THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION APPROACHES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Le Pen finished second with 16.86% of the vote in the first round of a crowded French presidential election of 16 candidates.
		Many French citizens were shocked by the results, as Le Pen is largely viewed as an anti-Semite and racist because of his support of "national preference" laws for housing and employment, in addition to advocating the expulsion of illegal immigrants and restricting the right to seek asylum.
		French voter particpation has been decreasing since 1988, when a little more than 80% of the population voted.
	baltimorechronicle.com /french_election_may02.html (370 words)

	Quota Notes QN2002B: June 2002
		Such elections could be held in one poll by letting voters mark their preferences among all candidates, which is the standard in Australian single-vacancy polls.
		Normally these elections mitigate public dissatisfaction with the system as the two candidates in the "run-off" poll usually have one right-wing candidate and one left-wing candidate, giving those two major blocs a crudely based chance for a final test of strength, with other blocs forced to choose between those two only.
		At the "run-off" poll on 5th May 2002, the major blocs, who were represented at the initial poll by the outgoing President, Jacques Chirac, and the outgoing Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, delivered nearly all their votes to Chirac, and away from Le Pen, whose stance was further to the right than either of them.
	www.prsa.org.au /qn/2002b.html (3395 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the last French presidential election in 2002, Jean Marie Le Pen’s far-right, xenophobic party, the National Front, won 25 per cent of the vote in Marseille, and one can safely assume that a fair proportion of his supporters were pieds noirs and their children.
		French authorities have been concerned by the spectre of radical Islam since at least 1995, when the Paris subway system was bombed by Muslim extremists with a loss of several lives.
		Last March, a court sentenced six French Algerians to lengthy prison terms for their roles in a 2001 plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=8592 (1256 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| French election wide open
		Pollsters say the outcome of the French presidential election is wide open, with less than three days to go before the first round.
		In 1997 Mr Chirac called an early parliamentary election on the basis of polls which predicted a victory for the right, but the vote ushered Mr Jospin's government into power.
		In the presidential election in 1995, polls put Mr Jospin as much as eight percentage points behind Mr Chirac in the first round, but he ended up 2.5% ahead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1939069.stm (599 words)

	SuperFrenchie » France’s Colonial Blowback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		French racism is widespread and a major cause of the current crisis.
		French racism is the fear of the Other who won’t be us; American racism is the fear of the Other who will.
		The French chopped off their king’s head for that sort of favoritism and are unlikely to be impressed; especially when they see the kind of simian chest-thumper it winds up bringing to power.
	superfrenchie.com /?p=511 (7578 words)

	Are Nazis headed for election gains?
		FRENCH POLITICS could be headed for a second "earthquake" in this month’s legislative elections, with both the fascist National Front and the revolutionary left expected to do well.
		The first "earthquake"--the success of Nazi Jean-Marie Le Pen in the recent presidential election--led to big antifascist demonstrations between the two rounds of voting, including massive union-led marches in cities across the country on May Day.
		Incumbent French President Jacques Chirac won by a landslide in the May 5 runoff, taking 82 percent of the vote after the mainstream left and even far-left groups backed him against Le Pen.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/410/410_05_FrenchElections.shtml (512 words)

	Le Pen’s Revenge
		During the French presidential election of 2002, Jacques Chirac, the sitting president, refused to debate the finalist challenger, so to speak, Jean-Marie Le Pen, calling him an extremist who did not deserve to have a voice.
		It was Le Pen against the whole united establishment, which included the Catholic Church, the trade unions, the French legal profession, the media, and of course the chattering classes.
		Successive French governments have insisted that immigration is needed to make up for shortfalls of nurses and doctors and other professionals.
	www.amconmag.com /2005/2005_12_05/taki.html (740 words)

	About the USA > U.S. Government > Elections
		On election day -- the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November of an election year -- every citizen of legal age who has taken the steps necessary in his or her state to meet the voting requirements (such as registering to vote) has an opportunity to vote.
		The political parties (or independent candidates) in each state submit to the chief election official a list of electors pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the state's electoral vote.
		Following election day, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, these electors assemble in their state capitals, cast their ballots, and officially select the next president.
	usa.usembassy.de /government-elections.htm (856 words)

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		By an astute move, Chirac secured his election as secretary-general of the Gaullist UDR in the face of potential opposition from the party "barons" and soon afterwards consolidated his hold over the majority by easily defeating an opposition motion of censure.
		The French president, by a constitutional convention, only controls foreign and military policy— and even then, allocation of funding is under the control of Parliament and under the significant influence of the prime minister.
		French voters turned down the proposed document by a wide margin, which was interpreted by some as a rebuke to Chirac and his government.
	www.mailhollywood.com /cel.php?viewCel=28 (3988 words)

	2002 - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		February 20 - In most of the world, at 20:02 (8:02 PM) local time, date (written as day/month), time, and year are all 2002, making each of them alone, any two together, and the combination of all three, all palindromes.
		July 27 - Helen Clark leader of the Labour Party is historically re-elected in a landslide victory over the Right Wing in the New Zealand general election of 2002.
		November 5 - U.S. Elections: The Republican Party maintains control of the House of Representatives and regains control of the Senate.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/2002 (4734 words)

	ULB - Cevipol - Presidential Election of 2002 in France
		ULB - Cevipol - Presidential Election of 2002 in France
		Presidential Election : Election of 2002 in France (first round)
		Presidential Election : election of May 5 2002 (2e round)
	www.ulb.ac.be /soco/cevipol/documentation-e/France/Presidential/2002-e.htm (58 words)

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