- Title: FRANCE: CAMPAIGNING ENDS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
- Date: 5th May 1995
- Summary: LYON, FRANCE (MAY 5, 1995) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 1. SV FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JACQUES CHIRAC SUPPORTERS INCLUDING ACTOR ALAIN DELON (GREY HAIR AND GLASSES) (7 SHOTS) 0.39 2. SV JACQUES CHIRAC SHAKING HANDS WITH PRO-EUROPEAN FORMER CENTRIST PREMIER RAYMOND BARRE (3 SHOTS) 0.53 3. SV CHIRAC SAYING NO ONE CAN FORECAST WHO
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- Location: LYON, FRANCE
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- Country: France
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- Story Text: An eve-of-poll ban on campaigning in France's presidential race came into effect on Saturday (May 6) after conservative Jacques Chirac and Socialist Lionel Jospin made final appeals to voters before Sunday's decisive run-off.
Both candidates indicated the vote would be close, with Chirac, the frontrunner, saying: "Nothing is won".
"No one can forecast who our fellow citizens will choose," Chirac, the Paris mayor, told his last rally in Lyon on Friday (May 5), betraying last-minute anxiety.
"There is a real Socialist danger...Strong mobilisation is an imperious necessity," said Chirac, 62, who has twice been prime minister.
Chirac won the support of pro-European former centrist premier Raymond Barre, who told the Lyon rally that more social democracy would plunge France into mediocrity.
"I am personally committed to European economic monetary and economic union when conditions set by the (Maastricht) treaty have been met and in any case by January 1, 1999," Chirac said.
"The choice is simple: either real change, with me, or the risks and adventure of a third Socialist seven-year term," Chirac said.
Some 40 million voters are to choose a successor to their longest-serving president, Socialist Francois Mitterrand, after a campaign which focused on unemployment and social issues Polls published a week ago saw Chirac ahead, with about 20 per cent of voters undecided.
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