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To: Joe NYC who wrote (146818)	5/3/2002 11:15:44 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574680

Yet this Le Pen triumph occurred in a region that is almost a model of the benefits of the European integration he opposes so virulently. At around 5 percent, unemployment in Alsace, along the border with Germany, is just over half the national average of 9 percent — the lowest in France. Interesting......Alsace.....not far from Hitler's rise in Bavaria. France/we may have more to worry about than we thought. ted

To: Joe NYC who wrote (146818)	5/3/2002 11:17:57 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574680

____________________________________________________________ France's Le Pen Expects 'Massive Vote Fraud' May 03, 2002 09:08 AM ET SAINT-CLOUD, France (Reuters) - Two days before France's presidential runoff, far-right contender Jean-Marie Le Pen said Friday he feared massive vote-rigging would deprive him of victory against President Jacques Chirac. The remark during a news conference follows other comments by the ex-paratrooper apparently aimed at preparing supporters for what is expected to be a landslide defeat Sunday, as even left-wing voters rally to the conservative Chirac. "Electoral fraud on a massive scale is being prepared," he declared at his headquarters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud. "A totalitarian climate has descended on the country," he said about protests against him that have drawn up to one and a half million onto the streets and Chirac endorsements from all corners of society. "Today, anything goes to get rid of Le Pen." Le Pen did not say whom he suspected of plotting to rig the election and did not say he would formally contest the result. There was no immediate comment on Le Pen's allegation from the French Interior Ministry, which is responsible for publishing election results. The 73-year-old National Front leader stunned most of France and sent shock waves through Europe and beyond by qualifying for the runoff with 17 percent of April's first-round vote, inching ahead of defeated Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. As both Chirac and Le Pen wound up their campaigns with rallies Thursday night, a survey by the Ipsos polling group forecast Chirac to win between 75 percent and 82 percent of the vote. At his closing rally in a half-empty sports venue in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, Le Pen told supporters not to be demoralized if he was beaten, and to look forward to parliamentary elections in June.