[EM] France President election top 2 runoff

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

D - A real world example of the extremist effects of even top 2 runoff 
election systems.

Runoff in a few weeks.

Any election method folks in France ???

What happens when IRV in the U.S.A. starts getting 2 top extremists with 3 
choices remaining ???
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/22/france.election/index.html

Le Pen will 'take France out of EU'

PARIS, France -- Jubilant French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen 
has vowed to turn back the political clock and take the country out of 
the European Union if he becomes president. 

Following his stunning success in the first round of voting in the 
French presidential elections, Le Pen said on Monday he was prepared to 
take France out of "the Europe of Maastricht." 

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With more than 99 percent of the vote counted, Chirac had 19.7 percent, 
Le Pen 17.06 percent and Jospin 16.05 percent, according to the Interior 
Ministry. 

Analysis of the result showed Le Pen, who once called the Holocaust a 
detail of history, finished first in nine of France's 22 regions and 
displaced the Socialists and Communists as the choice of working class 
voters. 

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