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Sunday, 5 May, 2002, 20:22 GMT 21:22 UK
Chirac wins by a landslide

Chirac: "France has reaffirmed republican values"
Jacques Chirac has won a landslide victory in the French
presidential election after voters surged to the polls to
keep out far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.