Please answer the following question: Information: - The President of the French Republic, is the executive head of state of the French Fifth Republic. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the first minister and cabinets has over time differed with the various French constitutions. - Jacques Rene Chirac (29 November 1932) is a French politician, who served as the President of France and "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007. Chirac served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976, from 1986 to 1988, and as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. - The French Prime Minister in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. During the Third and Fourth Republics, the head of government position was called President of the Council of Ministers, generally shortened to President of the Council. - The 2007 French presidential election , the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five - year term . The winner , decided on 5 and 6 May 2007 , was Nicolas Sarkozy . The first round of voting took place on Saturday , 21 April 2007 ( French territories in the Americas and the Eastern Pacific ) and Sunday , 22 April 2007 ( French territories in the Western Pacific , Indian Ocean , and Metropolitan France ) . As no candidate obtained a majority ( 50 percent plus one ) , a second round between the two leading candidates , Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal , took place on Saturday , 5 May and Sunday , 6 May 2007 . Sarkozy and Royal both represented a generational change . Either candidate would have become the first French president to be born after World War II , the first to have seen adulthood under the Fifth Republic , and the first not to have been in politics under Charles de Gaulle . What is the relationship between 'french presidential election' and 'president of the french republic'?
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