François Mitterrand vs Jacques Chirac

Who's winning: François Mitterrand or Jacques Chirac?

So far, François Mitterrand has 45% and Jacques Chirac has 55% of 1,704 votes cast — Jacques Chirac is currently ahead.

Mitterrand served two full terms as France's longest-serving president of the Fifth Republic. Chirac followed with two terms of his own, spanning shifts in both domestic and European policy.

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