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Encyclopedia > French presidential election, 1995

Second Round

President: Jacques Chirac, Rally for the Republic (RPR)
Opponent: Lionel Jospin, Socialist Party (PS)
Vote: Winner: 52.6% Opponent: 47.4%

Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932) is a French politician. ... The Rally for the Republic, also known by its French acronym RPR (Rassemblement pour la République), was a French political party. ... Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997-2002. ... The emblem of the French Socialist Party The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ...

First Round

Candidate Party Vote Percent
Lionel Jospin Socialist Party (PS) 23.3%
Jacques Chirac Rally for the Republic (RPR) 20.8%
Édouard Balladur splinter of Rally for the Republic (RPR) 18.6%
Jean-Marie Le Pen Front National (FN) 15.0%
Robert Hue French Communist Party (PCF) 8.6%
Arlette Laguiller Lutte Ouvrière 5.3%
Philippe de Villiers Movement for France (MPF) 4.7%
Dominique Voynet Les Verts 3.3%
Jacques Cheminade (affiliated with the LaRouche Movement) 0.3%

See also: President of France, France, Politics of France Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997-2002. ... The emblem of the French Socialist Party The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932) is a French politician. ... The Rally for the Republic, also known by its French acronym RPR (Rassemblement pour la République), was a French political party. ... Edouard Balladur, French statesman Édouard Balladur (born May 2, 1929) is a French politician. ... The Rally for the Republic, also known by its French acronym RPR (Rassemblement pour la République), was a French political party. ... Portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen. ... Front National can mean: Front National, a right-wing French political party. ... Robert Hue (born October 19, 1946) is a French politician. ... The logo of the PCF. Note the absence of traditional communist imagery such as the hammer and sickle. ... Arlette Laguiller (born March 18, 1940) is the spokeswoman and by far the best known leader of the Lutte Ouvrière French Trotskyist political party. ... Workers Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union (Trotskyist) (Union Communiste (Trotskyste)), a French Trotskyist political party, is known (technically, it is the name of the weekly paper edited by the party). ... Philippe de Villiers (born March 25, 1949 as viscount Philippe le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon) is a French conservative politician. ... The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a small conservative nationalist and traditionalist party, founded on November 20, 1994. ... Les verts (the Greens) is one Green Party of France. ... Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Argentina, is a french politician. ... The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... French politics under the Fifth Republic After Charles de Gaulle had the constitution of the French Fifth Republic adopted in 1958, France was ruled by successive right-wing administrations until 1981. ...

French Presidential elections

1965 | 1969 | 1974 | 1981 | 1988 | 1995 | 2002 | 2007 This article needs cleanup. ... Second Round First Round See also President of France France Politics of France This politics-related article is a stub. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The 2007 presidential election will herald the first contest since Frances rejection of the European constitution in May 2005. ...


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In the election of 2002 he opposed the controversial nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen and won re-election by a landslide.
Chirac ran against sitting president Giscard in the presidential election, thus splitting the center-right vote; both Chirac and Giscard were defeated by Socialist François Mitterrand.
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.
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