Retour sur plusieurs moments télé culte de sa longue carrière politique. [73] A poll conducted in 2010 suggested he was the most admired political figure in France, while Sarkozy was 32nd. jeudi 26 septembre 2019, Jacques Chirac meurt à l’âge de 86 ans. Depuis plus d'une dizaine d'années l'ancien président de la République était malade. In return, the new president chose Chirac to lead the cabinet. Although Chirac was well-situated in de Gaulle's entourage, being related by marriage to the general's sole companion at the time of the Appeal of 18 June 1940, he was more of a "Pompidolian" than a "Gaullist". According to a July 2005 poll,[50] 32 percent judged Chirac favourably and 63 percent unfavorably. [citation needed], When the RPR/UDF right-wing coalition won a slight majority in the National Assembly in the 1986 election, Mitterrand (PS) appointed Chirac prime minister (though many in Mitterrand's inner circle lobbied him to choose Jacques Chaban-Delmas instead). Après avoir été député, ministre, Premier ministre et maire de Paris, c’est en 1995 que Jacques Chirac voit enfin sa carrière politique atteindre son paroxysme en étant élu Président de la République Française. [16], Inspired by Charles de Gaulle, Chirac started to pursue a civil service career in the 1950s. Jacques Chirac vient de décéder ce jeudi à l'âge de 86 ans. [63] He recovered and returned to his duties soon afterward. At the 2002 French presidential election, he won 82.2% of the vote in the second round against the far-right candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Millerand held the presidency in an acting capacity before being fully elected. "La cohabitation de longue durée: studying the 1997-2002 experience. Chirac was born and educated in Paris, but developed an affinity for his family's native region in rural France and never lost his touch for the country or the common man. [87], The conditions of the privatisation of the Parisian water system acquired very cheaply by the Compagnie Générale des Eaux and the Lyonnaise des Eaux, then directed by Jérôme Monod, a close friend of Chirac, were also criticised. "[29] His rivalry with Giscard d'Estaing intensified. But almost from the beginning of his term, he was faced with labor unrest over his economic austerity plans. In 1954, Chirac presented The Development of the Port of New-Orleans, a short geography/economic thesis to the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), which he had entered three years before. In 2001, the left, represented by Bertrand Delanoë (PS), won a majority on the city council of the capital. Knapp, Andrew. [19], Chirac trained as a reserve military officer in armoured cavalry at Saumur. However, it is generally conceded that Mitterrand used the areas granted to the President of the Republic, or "reserved domains" of the Presidency, Defence and Foreign Affairs, to belittle his Prime Minister. [83] As part of this deal, France sold Iraq the Osirak MTR nuclear reactor, designed to test nuclear materials. Immediately after Sarkozy's victory, Chirac moved into a 180-square-metre (1,900 sq ft) duplex on the Quai Voltaire in Paris lent to him by the family of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Learn more about Jacques Chirac … [citation needed], After Chirac's death in 2019, the street leading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi was named Jacques Chirac Street in November 2019 in celebration of Chirac's efforts to bolster links between France and the United Arab Emirates during his presidency. After attending the École nationale d'administration, Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, entering politics shortly thereafter. However, benefiting from positive polls, Balladur decided to be a presidential candidate, with the support of a majority of right-wing politicians. Because of his alleged improprieties, he was lambasted in a song Chirac en prison ("Chirac in prison") by French punk band Les Wampas, with a video clip made by the Guignols. ", "La "Cruella" de la droite revient... Marie-France Garaud taclera-t-elle Sarkozy? These two organised the campaign against Chaban-Delmas in 1974. 8 and second row. So there's not any other solution to multilateralism. [8] Then, Chirac's economic policies, based on dirigisme, allowing for state-directed investment, stood in opposition to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom under the ministries of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, which Chirac described as "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism".[9]. Il … While the far-right National Front grew, taking advantage of the proportional representation electoral system which had been introduced for the 1986 legislative elections, he signed an electoral pact with the Giscardian (and more or less Christian Democratic) party Union for French Democracy (UDF). It was not for France, therefore, to apologise for the roundup of Jews for deportation that happened while the Republic had not existed and was carried out by a state, Vichy France, which it did not recognise. Chirac was also featured in Le Bêbête Show as an overexcited, jumpy character. Member of the Constitutional Council of France: Since 2007. He was elected deputy for his home Corrèze département, a stronghold of the left. to be the voice[citation needed] within the G8 summit meetings to support international action to curb global warming and climate change concerns. His great-grandparents on both sides were peasants in the rural south-western region of the Corrèze. He passed away at the age of 86 on 26th September 2019. Nevertheless, the right won the 1993 legislative election. However, Chirac became increasingly unpopular during his second term. September 26, 2019 - Chirac passes away at the age of 86. Chirac told the Socialist candidate that he wanted to "get rid of Giscard". Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. "Protocol, Image, and Discourse in Political leadership Competition: the case of prime minister Lionel Jospin, 1997-2002.". In November 2007 a preliminary charge of misuse of public funds was filed against him. After his baccalauréat, he served for three months as a sailor on a coal-transport. During an official visit to Madagascar on 21 July 2005, Chirac described the repression of the 1947 Malagasy uprising, which left between 80,000 and 90,000 dead, as "unacceptable". [47] He also published a plan to reduce the number of fighters the French military had by 30.[48]. In 1992, convinced a candidate could not become president whilst advocating anti-European policies, he called for a "yes" vote in the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, against the opinion of Pasqua, Séguin and a majority of the RPR voters, who chose to vote "no". He doubled the number of presidential cars – to 61 cars and seven scooters in the Palace's garage. But he was driven by an interest in politics, and at age 35 he became one of the youngest government ministers in France under President Charles de Gaulle. (In 2000 the constitution had been amended to reduce the length of the presidential term to five years, so his second term was shorter than his first. "[30] Foccart, who had also co-founded the Gaullist SAC militia (dissolved by Mitterrand in 1982 after the Auriol massacre) along with Charles Pasqua, and who was a key component of the "Françafrique" system, was again called to the Elysée Palace when Chirac won the 1995 presidential election. Chirac was previously the Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. The years that followed were difficult ones, but Chirac's popularity rose as the Socialist prime minister's fell. [45] He also reduced expenditure on nuclear weapons[46] and the French nuclear arsenal was reduced to include 350 warheads, compared to the Russian nuclear arsenal of 16,000 warheads. Saddam approved a deal granting French oil companies a number of privileges plus a 23-percent share of Iraqi oil. in, Gaffney, John. By the end of his first year, unions nearly brought the country to its knees with strikes that paralyzed the transport sector. He passed himself off, as a right-wing voter, by changing his voice. Ultimately, he obtained more votes than Balladur in the first round (20.8 percent), and then defeated the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the second round (52.6 percent). Jacques Chirac married Bernadette Chodron de Courcel in 1956 and the couple had two daughters, Laurence and Claude. [11], According to Chirac, his name "originates from the langue d'oc, that of the troubadours, therefore that of poetry". Mayor of Paris: 1977–95 (Resignation, became President of the French Republic in 1995). President of the General Council of Corrèze: 1970–1979. [74][75] On 10 December 2015, Chirac was hospitalised in Paris for undisclosed reasons, although his state of health did not "give any cause for concern", he remained for about a week in ICU. His opponents contend that he installed "clientelist" policies. [70], In Volume 2 of his memoirs published in June 2011, Chirac mocked his successor Nicolas Sarkozy as "irritable, rash, impetuous, disloyal, ungrateful, and un-French". Levy, Jonah, Alistair Cole, and Patrick Le Galès. Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at age 86. [76] According to his son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux, Chirac was again hospitalised in Paris with a lung infection on 18 September 2016. Jacques Chirac, French politician who served as the country’s president (1995–2007) and prime minister (1974–76, 1986–88) and was a dominant figure in 20th-century French politics. )[64] "My whole life has been committed to serving France, and serving peace", Chirac said, adding that he would find new ways to serve France after leaving office. He ran for president and won. [68], As a former President of France, he was entitled to a lifetime pension and personal security protection, and was an ex officio member for life of the Constitutional Council. Along with Vladimir Putin (whom he called "a personal friend"),[55] Hu Jintao, and Gerhard Schröder, Chirac emerged as a leading voice against George W. Bush and Tony Blair in 2003 during the organisation and deployment of American and British forces participating in a military coalition to forcibly remove the government of Iraq controlled by the Ba'ath Party under the leadership of Saddam Hussein that resulted in the 2003–2011 Iraq War. [71], On 11 April 2008, Chirac's office announced that he had undergone successful surgery to fit a pacemaker. Chirac was previously the Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. He refused to give instructions to the RPR voters but said that he supported the incumbent president "in a private capacity", which was interpreted as almost de facto support of the Socialist Party's (PS) candidate, François Mitterrand, who was elected by a broad majority. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development: 1972–74. Dès l’année suivante, il intègre l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris, se destinant à une carrière dans l’administration. For years, he was dogged by charges of corruption dating back decades to his time in the Paris City Hall. Struggle for the right-wing leadership: 1976–1986, State responsibility for the roundup of Jews. Elsewhere, the plan for university reform (plan Devaquet) caused a crisis in 1986 when a student called Malik Oussekine was killed by the police, leading to massive demonstrations and the proposal's withdrawal. "I worked also in a factory in St. Louis, an Anheuser-Busch factory," he told CNN's Larry King in 1995. He appointed Yvan Blot, an intellectual who would later join the National Front, as director of his campaigns for the 1979 European election. When Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became president, he nominated Chirac as prime minister on 27 May 1974, to reconcile the "Giscardian" and "non-Giscardian" factions of the parliamentary majority. Hospitalised in Hôpital Cochin after a car crash, he declared that "as always about the drooping of France, the pro-foreign party acts with its peaceable and reassuring voice". In 2011, the Paris court declared Chirac guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, giving him a two-year suspended prison sentence. [citation needed], Jacques Chirac was a favorite character of Les Guignols de l'Info, a satiric latex puppet show. After Togo's leader Gnassingbé Eyadéma's death on 5 February 2005, Chirac gave him tribute and supported his son, Faure Gnassingbé, who has since succeeded his father. In a speech made on 16 July 1995 at the site of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, where 13,000 Jews had been held for deportation to concentration camps in July 1942, Chirac said, "France, on that day, committed the irreparable". A small group of "fidels" would remain with Chirac, including Alain Juppé and Jean-Louis Debré. Pompidou considered Chirac his protégé, and referred to him as "my bulldozer" for his skill at getting things done. "Le président Jacques Chirac s'est éteint ce matin au milieu des siens. Today the organisation executive board is chaired by Philippe Douste-Blazy. Chirac instead suggested the appointment of Edouard Balladur, who had promised that he would not run for the presidency against Chirac in 1995. Still, through all of the ups and downs of his nearly 40-year career in politics, Chirac remained one of the most popular public figures in France. But instead, it created an uproar, and his power was weakened by the subsequent backlash. Jacques René Chirac was born on November 29, 1932, in a prosperous Parisian family to the head of the aviation company Abel François Marie Chirac and a housewife, Marie-Louise Valette. “President Jacques Chirac … Because of Jacques Chirac's long career in visible government positions, he was often parodied or caricatured: Young Jacques Chirac is the basis of a young, dashing bureaucrat character in the 1976 Asterix comic strip album Obelix and Co., proposing methods to quell Gallic unrest to elderly, old-style Roman politicians. It is the conscience and the effectiveness of the world, as expressed to the UN.". At about the same time, it became apparent that Juppé and others had obtained preferential conditions for public housing, as well as other perks. [18], In 1953, after graduating from the Sciences Po, he attended a non-credit course at Harvard University's summer school, before entering the École nationale d'administration, which trains France's top civil servants, in 1957. The French president, by a constitutional convention, only controls foreign and military policy— and even then, allocation of funding is under the control of Parliament and under the significant influence of the prime minister. He said his country's nuclear arsenal had been reconfigured to include the ability to make a tactical strike in retaliation for terrorism. See their vaccine plan, Greta Thunberg urges public to listen to the experts (2020), See moment of deadly explosion at Yemen airport. President of the Rally for the Republic: 1976–94 (Resignation). "From Chirac to Sarkozy. Chirac continued[when?] He hired 145 extra employees – the total number of the people he employed simultaneously was 963. On 14 July 2002, during Bastille Day celebrations, Chirac survived an assassination attempt by a lone gunman with a rifle hidden in a guitar case. From March 1974, he was entrusted by President Pompidou with preparations for the presidential election then scheduled for 1976. France led several other European countries in an effort to prevent the invasion. [citation needed]. Tout au long de sa vie, l'ancien président de la République a aimé être au contact des artistes et des stars.20 Minutes "President Jacques Chirac … On the right, a new generation of politicians, the "renovation men", accused Chirac and Giscard of being responsible for the electoral defeats. Jacques Chaban-Delmas announced his candidacy in spite of the disapproval of the "Pompidolians". Le 22e président de la République française, Jacques Chirac, est décédé à l’âge de 86 ans, ce jeudi 26 septembre. The government had to make an embarrassing about-face. The former president also served as prime minister of France and mayor of Paris over the course of his political career. People; Triste nouvelle pour le clan Chirac. [69] He sat for the first time on the council on 15 November 2007, six months after leaving the presidency. In 2006, The Economist wrote that Chirac "is the most unpopular occupant of the Elysée Palace in the fifth republic's history."[51]. Chirac's first tenure as prime minister was also an arguably progressive one, with improvements in both the minimum wage and the social welfare system carried out during the course of his premiership. Jacques Chirac [ʒɑk ʃiʁak] , né le 29 novembre 1932 à Paris (Ve), est un haut fonctionnaire et homme d'État français. Elected as President of the Republic, he refused to discuss the existence of French military bases in Africa, despite requests by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [84], The Osirak deal became a controversy again in 2002–2003, when an international military coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq and forcibly removed Hussein's government from power. He was the son of Abel François Marie Chirac (1898–1968), a successful executive for an aircraft company,[8] and Marie-Louise Valette (1902–1973), a housewife. [citation needed] A former Vietnamese refugee, Anh Dao Traxel, is a foster daughter of Jacques and Bernadette Chirac. [61], Following major student protests in spring 2006, which followed civil unrest in autumn 2005 after the death of two young boys in Clichy-sous-Bois, one of the poorest communes in Paris' suburbs, Chirac retracted the proposed First Employment Contract (CPE) by "promulgating [it] without applying it", an unheard-of – and, some claim, illegal – move intended to appease the protesters while giving the appearance of not making a volte-face regarding the contract, and therefore to continue his support for his Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. However, a controversial judicial decision in 1999 granted Chirac immunity while he was president of France. At the end of his term in 2007, less than one person in five approved of his presidency -- a record low. He had immunity from the charges while he was president, but as he moved out of office, the prosecutor moved in. The photograph of Flight 4590 ablaze, the only picture taken of the Concorde on fire, was taken by passenger Toshihiko Sato on Chirac's jetliner. [citation needed], Chirac made his first run for president against Giscard d'Estaing in the 1981 election, thus splitting the centre-right vote. [13] He was educated in Paris at the Cours Hattemer, a private school. [44] In 1997 the aircraft carrier Clemenceau was decommissioned after 37 years of service, with her sister ship Foch decommissioned in 2000 after 37 years of service, leaving the French Navy with no aircraft carrier until 2001, when Charles de Gaulle was commissioned. Elected in 1979. Trouvez les Jacques Chirac images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. He is a Roman Catholic. The sequence of events ignited a large fire and caused the Concorde to veer left on its takeoff roll. A French town is changing the name of a major avenue, scrapping the name of late U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to honor a French president instead. September 18, 2016 - Chirac is admitted to a Paris hospital for a lung infection. [21] In 1965, he became an auditor in the Court of Auditors. [17] In 1950, he signed the Soviet-inspired Stockholm Appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons – which led him to be questioned when he applied for his first visa to the United States. Short of dissolving parliament and calling for new elections, the president was left with little power to influence public policy regarding crime, the economy, and public services. Reelected in 2002. They each take on smaller independent projects, mainly high-end residences, but come together for large commissions, which have included several university buildings in the south of Morocco. Although it has been often interpreted by historians as the struggle between two rival French right-wing families (the Bonapartists, represented by Chirac, and the Orleanists, represented by VGE), both figures in fact were members of the liberal, Orleanist tradition, according to historian Alain-Gérard Slama. [20] He then volunteered to fight in the Algerian War, using personal connections to be sent despite the reservations of his superiors. [30] The French Army thus remained in Côte d'Ivoire as well as in Omar Bongo's Gabon. "That any given individual country could go to war, or wage war on its own, is unthinkable, no one's even contemplating that. Chirac announced that he did not want to come back as prime minister as his previous term had ended with his unsuccessful run for the presidency against Mitterand who was still President at this point. In recent years, Chirac had suffered from memory loss and was rarely seen in public, but the two-time president will be remembered for his political prowess and his cultivated man-of-the-people style. They advocated a clash with Giscard d'Estaing because they thought his policy bewildered the conservative electorate. Chirac then declared that multipartism was a "kind of luxury."[30]. [91] The President of Union for a Popular Movement, who later served as France's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Juppé, was sentenced to a 14-month suspended prison sentence for the same case in 2004. This matter has been called the second Clearstream Affair. [94] He did not attend his trial, since medical doctors deemed that his neurological problems damaged his memory. [citation needed], On 29 May 2005, a referendum was held in France to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed treaty for a Constitution of the European Union (TCE). At the end of his first term it accounted for three percent of GDP. President of the French Republic: 1995–2007. When Nicolas Sarkozy became president in 2007, Juppé was one of the few "chiraquiens" to serve in François Fillon's government.[35].

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