(4 May 2002)
1. Wide shot, Eiffel Tower
2. Various, people on Champs Elysee
3. Newspaper kiosk
4. Various, posters on kiosk
5. Various, newspapers
6. Various, man buying newspaper
7. People on street
8. SOUNDBITE: (French) Voxpop Nasseria Fergag:
"Given that there were many abstentions in the first round, I think most people have woken up and realise that everyone must vote to keep Le Pen out"
9. SOUNDBITE: (French) Voxpop, no name given:
"Tomorrow, really, we have a limited choice because we can't let extremism win, it's a dangerous situation."
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Villepinte, near Paris - May 2, 2002
10. Various Chirac on stage at his last rally
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Marseille - May 3, 2002
11. Various Le Pen walking on stage
12. Various setup shots, Dominique Moisi, French Political Analyst
13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Dominique Moisi, French Political Analyst:
"We know tomorrow night who's going to be the next president of France, Jacques Chirac. But we will know only on June 16, on the second ballot of the legislative elections, what kind of president he is going to be. And by appearing tomorrow night at La Republique he's in fact preparing for the legislative elections. He's telling the French 'I saved the nation, you have to give me the means to run the country'."
14. Pan from statue to crowds on street at Place de la Republique
15. SOUNDBITE: (French) Dominique Moisi, French Political Analyst
"The answer is probably in the end, no. In fact, like September 11, which was an accelerator of trend, April 21, which was called September 11 of French politics, will leave a deep mark and will probably accelerate the tendency for France to have lesser weight in Europe compared to Great Britain or the Federal Republic of Germany. Whatever happens, there will be probably less France in Europe than there would have been before April 21."
16. Tilt down from French flag on the Elysee Palace
17. Close shot, flag
18. Various, posters of Le Pen and Chirac on street
STORYLINE:
After an improbable presidential campaign, the left-leaning Paris newspaper Liberation on Saturday summed up the feelings of millions of French voters with a front page endorsement of conservative incumbent Jacques Chirac over his ultra-right rival.
On the eve of Sunday's runoff, Liberation ran a cover with an enormous one-word headline "Oui!" over a picture of a Chirac ballot entering a ballot box. Conservative daily Le Figaro featured a front-page editorial entitled "Chirac, of course."
Chirac and National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen battled down to the wire before the legally mandated campaign halt at midnight on Friday. Polls show Chirac will trounce Le Pen, though it will take a while for the French to get over the shock of the 2002 presidential campaign.
The electoral success of Le Pen, an anti-immigration candidate who once called the Nazi gas chambers "a detail of history," led to massive protests against him among people of many political tastes.
The end of campaigning on Friday marked the start of a political quiet period. In their last pitches to voters, Chirac urged France to reject the anti-foreigner views of his rival and Le Pen predicted there would be electoral fraud in Sunday's contest. The next official appearances of Chirac and Le Pen are not expected before early race results emerge at 8 pm. local time (1800 GMT) on Sunday.
Polls show that the 69-year-old Chirac will sweep the runoff with overwhelming support from voters of all political stripes who want to reject Le Pen and his extremist platform.
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