Poll Gives Chirac 81 Percent in French Runoff

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Poll Gives Chirac 81 Percent in French Runoff

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An opinion poll published on Saturday gave French President Jacques Chirac a landslide 81 percent of the vote in the May 5 runoff for president against 19 percent for far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

The survey by CSA polling group, published in newspaper Le Parisien, put the number of abstentions or invalid votes at an unusually high 29 percent.

Chirac's score in the survey, carried out between April 23-24, was four points higher than that credited to him last Sunday in a CSA poll on the night of Le Pen's shock qualification for the second round.

Le Pen has said he would regard 30 percent or more as a success in the second round. Political leaders from left to right have urged voters to back Chirac as a way of keeping Le Pen's score to a minimum.

Tens of thousands of mainly young protesters have taken to the streets almost daily since Sunday, with major demonstrations planned on Saturday and on May 1.

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