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Engdahl announces J. M. G. Le Clézio | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio winning the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 9, 2008.

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.

However, a third contender, Jean-Marie Le Pen, unexpectedly obtained slightly more than Jospin in the first round of elections:

* Jean-Marie Le Pen 16. 86 %

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:

* Jean-Marie Le Pen 17. 79 %

* Extreme-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen qualifies for second round of French Presidential Elections.

While not being present in the national parliaments of France and the United Kingdom, Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front came second in the first round of the 2002 French presidential elections, and in the 2009 European Parliament election, the UK Independence Party came second, beating even the Labour Party, while the British National Party managed to win two seats for the first time.

* April 21 – French presidential election, 2002: The first round results in a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

He allegedly refused any alliance with Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National.

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.

He was labelled a far-right populist by his opponents and in the media, but he fiercely rejected this label and explicitly distanced himself from " far-right " politicians such as the Belgian Filip Dewinter, the Austrian Jörg Haider, or Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen whenever compared to them.

Fortuyn was compared with the politicians Jörg Haider and Jean-Marie Le Pen in the foreign press.

Jean-Marie Le Bris | Le Bris and his glider, Albatros II, photographed by Nadar ( photographer ) | Nadar, 1868

In 1856, Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris made the first powered flight, by having his glider " L ' Albatros artificiel " pulled by a horse on a beach.

Jean-Marie Le Pen (; born 20 June 1928 ) is a French right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National ( National Front ) party.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, September 2005

On 31 May 1991, Jean-Marie Le Pen married Jeanne-Marie Paschos (" Jany "), of Greek descent.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is also godfather of Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff, who painted his portrait in 2006.

National advertisement in Marseille, predicting the now unrealised possibility of Jean-Marie Le Pen becoming President in 2007

Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at the National Front ( France ) | Front National's annual tribute to Joan of Arc in Paris ( 1 May 2007 )

* Jean-Marie Le Pen, biography and the French election in 2002 in French

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

* Marine Le Pen, a French politician

Thousands take to the street all over France to protest against Le Pen.

** Chirac ( 19. 88 %), Le Pen ( 16. 86 %), Jospin ( 16. 18 %), Bayrou ( 6. 5 %), Lauguiller ( 5. 72 %), Mamere ( 5. 25 %), Chevenement ( 5. 32 %), Besancenot ( 4. 5 %), Saint-Josse ( 4. 0 %), Hue ( 3. 6 %).

** Marine Le Pen, French politician

All parties outside the National Front ( except for Lutte ouvrière ) called for opposing Le Pen, even if it meant voting for Chirac.

The 14-day period between the two rounds of voting was marked by demonstrations against Le Pen and slogans such as " Vote for the crook, not for the fascist " or " Vote with a clothespin on your nose ".

Chirac wrote he considered firing Sarkozy before, and conceded responsibility in allowing Jean Marie Le Pen to advance in 2002.

An explicit comparison with Le Pen was made by Ad Melkert, then lijsttrekker of the Labour Party, who said in Emmen on 24 April 2002:

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 lost in the second round to Jacques Chirac.

Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential election and finished fourth.

Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment.