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>>>Now I ain't beatin' my own drum laydyes and gentermens, but I 've been watching this seep up from the ground like an early spring fogginess off the bayou, misting ever so slightly above the ground and then up through the trees ... we still got visibility folks ... don't bail out ... keep your seats. Anyway, with the events in Spain (blocking the North Africans, the hostel burnings in Germany, the Belgians' elections, and others, they themselves watching their aeons-old societies being eroded by excessive (to them) immigration and dilution of the Old Stock, this is not surprising. The Socialists are conceding. A<>E<>R<<< }}}>Begin EMAIL THIS | Close Jospin quits after Le Pen beats him into run-off By Robert Graham and Raphael Minder in Paris, and FT.com staff Published: April 21 2002 19:00 | Last Updated: April 22 2002 07:57 Jacques Chirac on Sunday night looked set to retain the French presidency for a second term as a disgruntled electorate gave a huge protest vote to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the hard right leader of the National Front ejecting Socialist premier Lionel Jospin from the second round contest. Emerging victorious from the first round Mr Chirac immediately sought to rally the nation warning of a threat to democracy should the extremist 73 year-old Mr Le Pen be elected France's next head of state. Mr Jospin on Sunday night conceded defeat after gaining a provisional 16 per cent, behind the 17.2 per cent gained by Mr Le Pen and Mr Chirac's 20 per cent. He also announced he would resign from the premiership and withdraw from politics once the second round vote was over on May 5. The vote was the biggest electoral upset in France's post-war political history. "The results are an enormous clap of thunder - the fact that the extreme right represents 20 per cent is a very worrying sign for France and our democracy," Mr Jospin said. In addition to Mr Le Pen, Bruno Mégret, his onetime ally and dauphin in the National Front, received 3 per cent of the vote. The French electorate now faces a second-round choice between the 69 year-old outgoing president, whose image has suffered from corruption scandals and Mr Le Pen, a former paratrooper whose National Front has openly identified with racist policies and has no parliamentary representation. Thousands of anti-Le Pen protesters took to the streets of Paris early on Monday. Reuters news agency reported that police had used tear gas against the demonstrators, though there were no reports of injuries. The contest raises the prospect of a tilt towards the right in France which will further affect the political colour of Europe after the impact of the Berlusconi government in Italy. "What is at stake to day is national cohesion," said Mr Chirac on Sunday night. "If an election allows rejection and dissatisfaction to be expressed, this is not enough to form the basis of a government's policy." France's moderate and fragmented right is expected to rally round Mr Chirac for the second round. On Sunday night pollsters forecast a 78-22 per cent split in favour of Mr Chirac. But this may not provide enough momentum for the moderate right to win a tough general election in June - and without control of parliament France would face another left-right cohabitation. "All the ingredients are unfortunately now there to get a co-habitation," said Alain Madelin, the liberal leader who won less than 4 per cent but who is a an important potential Chirac ally. Commentators said in the unlikely event of Mr Le Pen being elected president of France, this would raise far worse problems for the European Union than those presented by the entry of the Haidar faction into the Austrian government three years ago. "This is a big defeat for the two leaders of the establishment," Mr Le Pen said on Sunday night. "This is first of all a rejection by the French people of the ineffective way in which they have been governed." Mr Le Pen profited from an election system which allowed 16 candidates to enter the field. His support was eroded by the three hard left candidates, the Communist and Green candidates Jean-Pierre Chevenement, his former interior minister. But none of these candiates believed his presence in the second round was in doubt. The vote saw an unprecedented level of abstention with 28 per cent of voters staying away from the polling booths. 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