61.   Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin and Communist candidate Robert Hue backed the strikers, saying workers should share in an improving economy.

62.   Socialist candidate appears to hold lead in presidential race.

63.   Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin and Communist candidate Robert Hue have met with the Rights First representative.

64.   Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin shot ahead in the first round of French presidential elections in Martinique but conservative Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac won in Guadeloupe.

65.   Socialist presidential candidate Jose Borrell said his party would not present it again before the next general elections, the national news agency EFE reported.

66.   That was a call to vote for the Socialist candidate.

67.   The former premier was speaking at a rally for Abel Caballero, the Socialist candidate for the presidency of Galicia.

68.   Thirty percent of Socialist candidates are women, against eight percent for the conservative coalition.

69.   This year, Balladur sought the presidency, and led by huge margins in early polls before being overtaken by Chirac and the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin.

70.   Francois Mitterrand has endorsed Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the race to succeed him as president.