Lassalle

Police and prosecutors later confirmed the weapon was a knife, and the lethal wound was to Ms Lassalle's chest.

His Critique of the Gotha Programme opposed the tendency of his followers Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel to compromise with the state socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle in the interests of a united socialist party.

Jean Lassalle, who qualified for the second round, passes the 10% mark by totaling 10.77%.

Then come Monique De Marco, Green candidate which totals 13.40%, followed by the member of Pyrenees-Atlantiques and candidate of the Modem Jean Lassalle who registers a low 6.78% while it is qualified to the second round on the whole Aquitaine.

Thus Lassalle also rejected the Marxist view that the state was destined to "wither away".