French legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline. In March 1993, the right obtained a large victory in the legislative election and a comfortable parliamentary majority. Two years later, the RPR leader Jacques Chirac was elected President of France in promising to reduce the "social fracture".

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  • French legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline. In March 1993, the right obtained a large victory in the legislative election and a comfortable parliamentary majority. Two years later, the RPR leader Jacques Chirac was elected President of France in promising to reduce the "social fracture". However, the programme of welfare reforms ("Plan Juppé") proposed by his Prime Minister Alain Juppé caused a social crisis in November and December 1995. The popularity of the executive duo decreased. In spring 1997, President Chirac tried to take the left-wing opposition by surprise by breaking up the National Assembly. The first polls indicated a re-election of the right-wing majority. The "Plural Left" coalition, composed of the Socialists, the Communists, the Greens, the Citizens' Movement and the Left Radicals, proposed a program of social reforms to reduce unemployment, limiting the length of the work week to 35 hours. Alain Juppé's unpopularity may have made the left's win easier. In the first round, the left-wing coalition obtained more votes than the incumbent parliamentary majority. The National Front achieved its best result in a legislative election. The right obtained its worst result in a legislative election during the Fifth Republic. After he was blamed for the situation, Alain Juppé announced he would resign even if the right kept their majority in the National Assembly after the second round. For all that, the "Plural left" obtained the majority of the seats. However the Socialist Party needed its allies to form a majority. For the first time, the ecologists are represented in the Parliament. The participation of National Front's candidates in the second round increased the defeat of the "Presidential majority". This was the first time since 1877 that a President of France lost a legislative election which he had called. The Socialist leader Lionel Jospin became Prime Minister of the third "cohabitation". It finished with the 2002 French presidential election.
  • Les eleccions legislatives franceses de 1997 es van dur a terme el 25 de maig i 1 de juny de 1997. El resultat fou una aclaparadora victòria de l'esquerra, i Lionel Jospin formarà govern amb l'anomenada Gauche plurielle. Es produeix una nova cohabitació política entre un govern d'esquerres i el president de dreta Jacques Chirac.
  • Les élections législatives de 1997 ont eu lieu le 25 mai et le 1 juin 1997 soit un an avant le terme de la précédente mandature en raison de la dissolution de l'Assemblée nationale décidée par le président de la République Jacques Chirac. Les résultats de l'élection aboutiront à la victoire de la gauche française emmenée par Lionel Jospin qui se voit chargé par Jacques Chirac de former le prochain gouvernement. À l'issue des élections Lionel Jospin est nommé Premier Ministre et conduira sa majorité gouvernementale au sein d'un mouvement appelé Gauche plurielle associant les socialistes, les communistes, les Mouvement des citoyens, les Verts et les radicaux de gauche au sein du gouvernement qu'il animera de 1997 à l'élection présidentielle française de 2002.
  • Внеочередные парламентские выборы 1997 года во Франции состоялись 25 мая и 1 июня. На них было избрано 11-oe Национальное собрание Пятой республики. Выборы были назначены на год раньше предусмотренного срока в связи с тем, что действующий президент Жак Ширак распустил парламент.
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  • Socialist Party (France)
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  • Rally for the Republic
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  • France
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  • 25 May and 1 June 1997
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  • French legislative election, 1997
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  • 207 seats
  • 242 seats
  • 53 seats
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  • Map of results by constituency
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  • French legislative election, 2002
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  • Rally for the Republic
  • Socialist Party (France)
  • Union for French Democracy
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  • 14.22% (1 round) 20.07% (2 round)
  • 15.65% (1 round) 22.46% (2 round)
  • 23.49% (1 round) 38.20% (2 round)
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  • 3,617,440 (1 round) 5,284,203 (2 round)
  • 3,983,257 (1 round) 5,714,354 (2 round)
  • 5,977,045 (1 round) 9,722,022 (2 round)
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  • French legislative election, 1993
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  • Popular vote
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  • French legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline. In March 1993, the right obtained a large victory in the legislative election and a comfortable parliamentary majority. Two years later, the RPR leader Jacques Chirac was elected President of France in promising to reduce the "social fracture".
  • Les eleccions legislatives franceses de 1997 es van dur a terme el 25 de maig i 1 de juny de 1997. El resultat fou una aclaparadora victòria de l'esquerra, i Lionel Jospin formarà govern amb l'anomenada Gauche plurielle. Es produeix una nova cohabitació política entre un govern d'esquerres i el president de dreta Jacques Chirac.
  • Les élections législatives de 1997 ont eu lieu le 25 mai et le 1 juin 1997 soit un an avant le terme de la précédente mandature en raison de la dissolution de l'Assemblée nationale décidée par le président de la République Jacques Chirac. Les résultats de l'élection aboutiront à la victoire de la gauche française emmenée par Lionel Jospin qui se voit chargé par Jacques Chirac de former le prochain gouvernement.
  • Внеочередные парламентские выборы 1997 года во Франции состоялись 25 мая и 1 июня. На них было избрано 11-oe Национальное собрание Пятой республики.
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  • French legislative election, 1997
  • Eleccions legislatives franceses de 1997
  • Elección legislativa de Francia (1997)
  • Élections législatives françaises de 1997
  • Парламентские выборы во Франции (1997)
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