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Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France by coming second in the 2002 presidential elections – archive, 2002 | France | The Guardian
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French extreme right National Front party leader Jean-Marie le Pen salutes supporters at his campaign headquarters in Saint Cloud near Paris, April 21, 2002 [after beating French socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
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Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France by coming second in the 2002 presidential elections – archive, 2002 | France | The Guardian
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