Rally for the Republic (RPR) party leaders, (L-R) Philippe Douste-Blazy, Jean-Louis Debre, Nicolas Sarkozy (C), Michele Alliot-Marie (4th L) and Edouard Balladur (R), attend a campaign meeting in Villepinte, a suburb of Paris, May 2, 2002. [Conservative incumbent Chirac faces surprise rival far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the May 5 ] presidential election runoff.