Likening the result to "a thunderclap", the disgraced Socialist called the far-right foray "a very worrying sign for France and for our democracy". Lionel Jospin concludes his concession speech ...

He stood for president five times, most successfully in 2002 when he shocked France by defeating Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round of voting, Jacques Chirac in the second round ...

One of France’s best known and most controversial ... the 2002 presidential election when he beat socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round to face Jacques Chirac in the second ...

The funeral in his hometown of La Trinite-sur-Mer in the Morbihan region of Brittany in western France will take place "in ...

Far-right firebrand and co-founder of France's anti-immigration National Front movement ... and in 2002 he famously ...

The funeral in his hometown of La Trinite-sur-Mer in the Morbihan region of Brittany in western France will take place ... famously eliminated Socialist Lionel Jospin in presidential elections ...

the essential story of the poll was the decline of support for both President Chirac and his socialist opponent Lionel Jospin, and the division of that discontent among a raft of smaller parties.

In 2002, he came perilously close to victory, defeating the Socialist candidate, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, in the first ... and economic ills that beset France. A champion of law and order ...

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an extreme right-winger who haunted the French political establishment for decades, died on Tuesday aged ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France’s main postwar far-right movement, was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his ...