The 1995 Socialist Party presidential primary was the selection process by which members of the

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chose their candidate for the

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Lionel Jospin Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...

won the primary by a huge margin. He later lost the

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to conservative candidate Jacques Chirac on 7 May 1995, obtaining 47% of the vote in the runoff.

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{{French Socialist Party Socialist Party (France) 1995 elections in France Primary elections in France

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