UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Mondav. April 24. 1995 7A Socialist leads in French elections The Associated Press PARIS — In a startling upset, Socialist Lionel Jospin finished first yesterday in the opening round of France's presidential election, according to exit polls. The favorite, conservative Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, took the second runoff spot. Jospin, a former education minister, benefited from infighting that divided the more powerful right. But he faces an uphill battle in the final round of voting May 7, since French voters have tended to lean right in recent elections. Even with only a fraction of votes officially counted, Conservative Premier Edouard Balladur said he had been eliminated and urged conservatives to back Chirac. For the 40.1 million registered voters, the election was the first step in choosing their first new president in 14 years. The 78-year-old incumbent, Socialist Francois Mitterrand, had given only lukewarm backing to Jospin, but this may have helped the candidate avoid being seen as a continuation of a now-uninspired administration. Jospin was expected to receive about 23 percent of the vote, according to exit polls. Chirac was projected to get about 20 percent, and Balladur 19 percent. Far-right voters showed their strength, giving Jean-Marie Le Pen of the anti-immigrant National Front his best-ever showing of more than 15 percent, according to the projections. Jospin, waging his first national campaign, had to scramble to ensure the Socialist Party was included in the second round. Only once since the current electoral system was implemented 30 years ago — in 1969 — was the left excluded from a presidential runoff. The last polls published before the voting showed Chirac with a solid lead over Jospin and Balladur, who were locked in a close race for second. The projected results showed a sharp swing in favor of Jospin and away from Chirac. But either conservative — Chirac or Balladur — would be favored in a runoff with Jospin because of a recent conservative swing among French voters. Turnout in French presidential elections is usually above 80 percent, but estimates by major polling firms predicted it could fall just under that mark. More than a third of voters were undecided a week ago. Those voters appeared to have spared France an all-conservative runoff. If Balladur, 65, had faced Chirac, 62, in the second round, it would have deeply divided the governing conservative majority and humiliated Mitterrand's once-powerful party, which controlled Parliament as recently as March 1993. Instead, a Jospin-Chirac runoff means an abrupt end to the political career of the patrician Balladur, who was the favorite until February. Unemployment, which grew from 10.5 percent when Balladur became premier in April 1993 to 12.6 percent in December, was a major campaign theme and one reason Balladur lost his considerable early lead. Mitterrand, 78, is alling with prostate cancer as he completes his 14-year presidency, the longest in French history. For the first time in 21 years he was not on the presidential ballot. He lost in 1974 before winning two seven-year terms. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front, was expected to finish fourth. Le Pen said French radio tried to undermine him during election day newscasts by repeating frequently that the culprits in the Oklahoma City bombing were from the extreme right. Communist Robert Hue, ecologist Dominique Voynet, leftist Arlette Laguiller, anti-corruption rightist Philippe de Villiers and lesser-known Jacques Cheminade each were expected to win 10 percent or less. Suspect in Tokyo subway attack killed The Associated Press TOKYO — As police and dozens of reporters looked on, a right-wing extremist on Sunday ambushed and fatally stabbed a senior leader of the doomsday cult suspected in the lethal nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways. national pride. Murai underwent surgery, but died of blood loss and internal injuries several hours later, according to a hospital spokesman. The attack occurred as Hideo Murai, 36, head of the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) cut's "Science and Technology Ministry," was returning to the cult's Tokyo headquarters Sunday. Murai was one of the five top leaders of the cult. The stabbing was the latest chapter in a wave of violence that has deeply shaken Japan, which has long taken the safety of its streets as a matter of Reporters and TV crews have been staked out in front of the cult headquarters for days, and several networks have broadcasted video showing a man pushing through the throng and slashing at Murai. The attacker dropped his bloody weapon, a long-bladed kitchen knife, in the mule that followed and was arrested. Police identified him as Hiroyuki Jo, 29, a member of a rightist organization. Japan's state-run television network, NHK, said Jo told police he wanted to punish Murai because of trouble caused by the cult. The cult has denied any connection with the Tokyo attack, which killed 12 people, or with two cases last week in which hundreds of people complained of stinging eyes and sore throats at a train station and shopping center in Yokohama. Yet the cult has been the focus of an intense police investigation since the March 20 subway killings. Japanese media reported over the weekend that police were planning to round up top leaders of the cult — including founder Shoko Asahara — as early as Monday in connection with the subway attack, and reporters had been staking out Aum facilities around the clock. 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