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.

* 1937 – Lionel Jospin, French politician, 165th Prime Minister of France

In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.

* Lionel Jospin 16. 18 %

Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin places third and announces his retirement from politics.

** Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France

Ultimately, he obtained more votes than Balladur in the first round ( 20. 8 percent ), and then defeated the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the second round ( 52. 6 percent ).

It had been expected that he would face incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin ( PS ) in the second round of elections ; instead, Chirac faced controversial far right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of National Front ( FN ) who came in 200, 000 votes ahead of Jospin.

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.

This was enough to qualify him for the second round, as a result of the poor showing by the PS candidate and incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin and the scattering of votes among 15 other candidates.

Dominique Voynet was to lead the party into government for the first time, joining Lionel Jospin ’ s Socialist Party ( PS ) and the Communist Party ( PCF ).

Lionel Jospin, who was Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002, retired on the island after his withdrawal from political life.

Chirac appoints Jean-Pierre Raffarin as his prime minister, replacing Lionel Jospin.

For the 2002 presidential election, opinion polls had predicted a run-off between incumbent President Chirac and PS candidate Lionel Jospin.

The Left, led by Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin, whom Chirac had defeated in the 1995 presidential race, unexpectedly won a solid National Assembly majority ( 319 seats, with 289 required for an absolute majority ).

Lionel Jospin was born to a Protestant family in Meudon ( Hauts-de-Seine ), a suburb of Paris.

In 1993, Lionel Jospin was appointed ministre plénipotentiaire, 2nd class ( a rank of ambassador ), a position that he held until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1997.

His government also introduced the 35-hour workweek, provided additional health insurance for those on the lowest incomes through the creation of CMU ( which made health care in France a universal right, and was regarded by Lionel Jospin and Martine Aubry as one of the “ beacons ” of their incumbency ), promoted the representation of women in politics, expanded the social security system, and created the PACS – a civil partnership or union between two people, whether of opposite genders or not.

On 14 July 2012, French President François Hollande announced that Lionel Jospin would lead a commission on deontology and ethics in French political life.

* Lionel Jospin – Prime Minister

On 5 June 2001, Lionel Jospin confessed before the Parliament that he had maintained links with a trotskyist formation " in the 1960s " and had maintained links with Pierre Lambert's party ( the Internationalist Communist Organization, OCI ) after his entrance in the Socialist Party in 1971.

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* Lionel B. Richie Jr. ( vocals, saxophone, drums and piano ) – born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama.

Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, the son of Joyce Annette ( née Flint ) and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, an analytical chemist.

He was born Lionel Boyd Johnson in 1891 and attended the London School of Economics to study Political Science, only to have his education cut short by World War I.

Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel and Phyllis Crawford, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17.

Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1908, and was raised by his grandmother.

He was born as Lionel Boyd Johnson.

* Lionel Richie, born & raised in Tuskegee, then graduated from Tuskegee University, R & B singer, songwriter, composer, producer and occasional actor.

Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney.

Gordon was born and grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a doctor who counted Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton among his patients.

Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. ( born June 20, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor.

Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Alberta R. ( Foster ) and Lionel Brockman Richie.

Powell was born in Westminster, England, to Philip Lionel William Powell and Maud Mary Wells-Dymoke.

* Lionel Nallet, ( born 14 September 1976 ), French international rugby union player ( lock ), currently playing for Castres Olympique in the Top 14.

Lionel John Kearns ( born February 16, 1937 ) is a Canadian poet and teacher.

Lionel Thomas Taylor ( born August 15, 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri ) is a former American football wide receiver who led the American Football League ( AFL ) in receptions each year for the first six years of the league's existence.

One of the most important clavecinist of our days Lionel Party was also born in Chile.

* Lionel Lemonchois ( born 1960 ), navigator

Although it was still defended and promoted up until the beginning of the 20th century, the French-Canadian liberal nationalism born out of the American and French revolutions began to decline in the 1840s, gradually being replaced by both a more moderate liberal nationalism and the ultramontanism of the powerful Catholic clergy as epitomized by Lionel Groulx.

David Lionel Baddiel ( born 28 May 1964 ) is an American-born British comedian, novelist and television presenter.

Joshua Lionel Cowen ( August 25, 1877-September 8, 1965 ), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains.

* Lionel Hampton, born in Louisville