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The Socialist Prime minister Lionel Jospin announced his political retirement after his elimination at the first round of the 2002 French presidential election. President Jacques Chirac was easily reelected, all the republican parties having called to block far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Chirac's conservative supporters created the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la majorité présidentielle or UMP) to prepare the legislative elections. Lionel Robert Jospin (born July 12, 1937 in Meudon, a suburb of Paris) is a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997-2002. ... (Redirected from 2002 French presidential election) This article needs cleanup. ... Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician. ... Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer France) is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party, and a candidate for the French presidency. ... The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP), initially named the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle), is the main French conservative political party. ...


The first round of the presidential election was a shock for the two main coalitions. The candidates of the parliamentary right obtained 32% of votes, and the candidates of the "Plural Left" only 27%. In the first polls, for the legislative elections, they were equal.


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Without a real leader, and staggered by surprising April 21's results, the left was in difficulty. The Socialist chairman François Hollande tried to revive the "Plural Left" under the name of "United Left"; but the effort was undermined by the fact that it didn't have a real programme. Furthemore, the left-wing parties could not motivate their voters against an unrecognized politician as Jean-Pierre Raffarin. All the more as a part of the left-wing electorate did not want a new "cohabitation". Finally, the polls indicated a growing advantage for the Presidential Majority. April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... François Hollande (born August 12, 1954) is a French politician. ...


The right won the elections and the UMP obtained a large parliamentary majority. For the third time under the Fifth Republic, a party acquired an absolute majority (the "blue surge"). Five months later, it became the Union for a Popular Movement. The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP), initially named the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle), is the main French conservative political party. ...


On the left, the Socialist Party achieved a better result than at the winning 1997 elections, but its allies were crushed. The far-left returned towards its usual level. In far-right, the National Front lost the half of its May 5 voters.


Results

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Summary of the 9 and 16 June 2002 French National Assembly elections results
Parties and coalitions Abbr. Votes (1st round) % (1st round) Seats (2nd round)
Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire) UMP 8 408 023 33.3 357
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie française) UDF 1 226 462 4.9 29
Miscellaneous Right-wing DVD 921 973 3.7 8
Movement for France (Mouvement pour la France) MPF 202 831 0.8 1
Liberal Democracy (Démocratie libérale) DL 104 767 0.4 2
Rally for France (Rassemblement pour la France) RPF 94 222 0.4 2
Total "Presidential Majority" (Right) 10 958 278 43.4 399
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) PS 6 086 599 24.1 141
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) PCF 1 216 178 4.8 21
The Greens (Les Verts) 1 138 222 4.5 3
Left Radical Party (Parti radical de gauche) PRG 388 891 1.5 7
Miscellaneous Left-wing DVG 275 533 1.1 6
Total "United Left" 9 105 443 36.1 178
National Front (Front national) FN 2 862 960 11.3 -
Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (Chasse, pêche, nature, traditions) CPNT 422 448 1.7 -
Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) LCR 320 467 1.3 -
Workers' Struggle (Lutte ouvrière) LO 301 984 1.2 -
Republican Pole (Pôle républicain) 299 897 1.2 -
Other Ecologists 295 899 1.2 -
National Republican Movement (Mouvement national républicain) MNR 276 376 1.1 -
Miscellaneous 194 946 0.8 -
Other Far-Left 81 558 0.3 -
Regionalists 66 240 0.3 -
Other Far-right 59 549 0.2 -
Total 25 252 045 100 577
Abstention: 35.6% (1st round), 39.6% (2nd round)
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Elections in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (836 words)
However, French politics have some tendencies of being a two-party system, where power alternates between relatively stable coalitions, each being led by a major party: on the left, the French Socialist Party, on the right, the UMP and its predecessors.
For each level: presidential, legislative (National Assembly), senatorial, regional, "general" (for département governments) or municipal (for city governments, communes), the election is held on the same day throughout the country, though partial elections held only in a small number of consistuencies can be held in certain circumstances.
However, the elections for the president of the Republic and the parliament are overseen by the Constitutional Council, which has at its disposal, for the duration of the election, extra personnel (including judges from courts of first instance) to perform necessary checks.
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French politics, for the past 30 years, have been characterised by the opposition of two political groups: one left-wing, centred around the French Socialist Party, and one right-wing, centred around the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), then its successor the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP).
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