Extreme-right demonstrations in the 1990s by the statue of Charles XII altered its reputation.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, however, was widely recognized as a controversial nationalist candidate, and in the second round a vast majority of the voters rejected him:

He ran for President again in 2002, and was eliminated in the first round due to finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, following which he immediately announced his retirement from politics.

These areas were among far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen's best regions in 2002 and are conservative on issues such as immigration.

* 2007 French Presidential election: Bruno Mégret and the MNR support the National Front ( FN ) candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Mégret himself was in competition against a Front national's candidate in the 12th circonscription of Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur ( Vitrolles-Marignane ), Gérald Gerin, Jean-Marie Le Pen's own majordome: Mégret gathering 02. 25 % of the vote and Gerin 07. 50 %.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

The immediate resignation of Jospin from politics following his shock defeat by far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of the 2002 presidential election forced Hollande to become the public face of the party for the 2002 legislative election but, although he managed to limit defeats and was re-elected in his own constituency, the Socialists lost nationally.

In 2010, she was a candidate for the leadership of the FN set up by Jean-Marie Le Pen on 5 October 1972.

Comme un coup de tonnerre (" Like A Thunderclap ") is a French documentary about socialist candidate Lionel Jospin's campaign of 2002 for president and his subsequent ousting from the second election turn by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

* Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, has been a candidate five times ( 1974, 1988, 1995, 2002 and 2007 ) in the French Presidential elections.

Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin.

Le Pen directed the 1965 presidential campaign of far-right candidate Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who obtained 5. 19 % of the votes.

In April 2000, Le Pen was suspended from the European Parliament following prosecution for the physical assault of Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal during the 1997 general election.

The 2002 presidential election was the first ever in France to include a right-wing nationalist candidate in the run-off, as Le Pen beat the socialist candidate in the first round.

In the 1965 presidential election, Le Pen unsuccessfully attempted to consolidate the far-right vote around the far-right presidential candidate Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour.

It fielded Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour as its primary candidate, while Le Pen called for voter abstention.

The party's 4. 3 % support was the lowest score since the 1981 election and only one candidate, Marine Le Pen in Pas de Calais, reached the runoff ( where she was defeated by the socialist incumbent ).

This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of Le Pen's unexpected victory over Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin and subsequent appearance in the runoff election.

Depiction of Carnot's assassination appearing in Le Petit Journal | Le Petit Journal Illustré. When the Daniel Wilson scandals occasioned the downfall of Jules Grévy in December 1887, Carnot's reputation for integrity made him a candidate for the presidency, and he obtained the support of Georges Clemenceau and many others, so that he was elected by 616 votes out of 827.

The rise of Bayrou's poll numbers in February, however, complicated this " Sarko-Ségo " scenario, and raised the distinct possibility that the Parti Socialiste candidate would be excluded from the second round for a second straight election cycle, following the humiliating defeat of former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 2002 at the hands of right wing nationalist Jean Marie Le Pen.

In the 1965 federal election, Jerry Le Bourdais, who listed his profession as " oilworker ", unsuccessfully sought election in Vancouver East riding in British Columbia as a candidate of the Progressive Workers Movement.

Gollnisch was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the National Front in 2011 when the party's founding leader Jean Marie Le Pen retired.

In a closed system, from the time a candidate qualifies to the day of the primary, he must cater to strong partisans, who tend to lean to the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum.

Similarly, in New Zealand, some voters who preferred a large party have voted for the minor party's local candidate to ensure it qualifies for list seats on the back of winning a single electorate.

Once a candidate passed the Ujian Sikap Pengakap Raja, he / she qualifies for the Pentarafan Pengakap Raja ( King's Scout Standardization Camp ), a three-day two-nights organized by his / her respective Lembaga Pentaraf Negeri ( State King's Scout Standardizers ).

The HF-examination qualifies the candidate for admission to higher education, subject to the restrictions appearing from the regulations laid down to this effect.

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a divisional officer in a sea cadet corps.

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a platoon officer in an army cadet corps.

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a flight commander in an air cadet squadron.

This qualifies the candidate to become an Army or Air Force lieutenant, or a Naval sub lieutenant.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.

First Flyer ( Frisco Flyer-Castle Light ) looks like a splendid candidate for the Illinois Stakes.

For proper accreditation of schools, teachers in any course must have a degree at least one level above that for which the student is a candidate.

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

County Supervisor Weldon R. Sheets, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

He stopped and looked at the picture of his son, the picture on his desk which had changed with the years from a laughing baby to a candidate for Hanford College.

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At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

Scholars place Antoninus Pius as the leading candidate for fulfilling the role as a friend of Rabbi Judah the Prince.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.