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The French presidential election of 1981 took place on 10 May 1981 giving the presidency of France to François Mitterrand the first Socialist president of the Fifth Republic.In the first round of voting on 26 April 1981 a political spectrum of ten candidates stood for election and the leading two candidates – Mitterrand and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing – advanced to a second round.
