posted by Matthew @ 4/22/2002 06:41:00 AM
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Monday, April 22, 2002
Jean Marie Le Pen has come second in the first round of the French presidential election according to preliminary results from 97% of the votes. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth across Europe but in practice it means that Lionel Jospin is out of the second round and Jacques Chirac (who was a minister in De Gaulle's governments of the 1960s!) is almost guaranteed a second term. What it means for second term Chirac policies, God knows.