1932-11-29 ( 92 years old ) in Paris, France
Jacques Chirac, born November 29, 1932 in Paris and died September 26, 2019 in the same city, was a senior French civil servant and statesman.
He was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976, then again from 1986 to 1988, and President of the Republic from 1995 to 2007. After studying at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), he joined the office of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in 1962 as a special adviser. He was elected Member of Parliament for Corrèze within the Gaullist majority and appointed Secretary of State four times and Minister four times, starting in 1967.
Chirac was subsequently chosen as Prime Minister by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974. Two years later, having had poor relations with Giscard, he resigned from Prime Minister's office and launched the Rally for the Republic (RPR), a political party claiming to be Gaullist. While continuing his career as an elected official in Corrèze, he became Mayor of Paris in 1977 and ran in the 1981 presidential election.
After the right-wing victory in the 1986 legislative elections, he was appointed by Socialist President François Mitterrand to serve as Prime Minister once again. He was thus the first head of government under a cohabitation regime under the Fifth Republic and, at the same time, the only politician to have served as Prime Minister twice under the same regime. He was defeated in the second round of the 1988 presidential election by the incumbent president, then became leader of the opposition, despite subsequently facing the growing popularity of Édouard Balladur.
In 1995, he was elected Head of State with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, defeating Socialist Lionel Jospin. He initially governed with the right-wing majority he acquired in 1993. The beginning of his first term was marked by a pension and social security reform that was massively contested and partially abandoned, and by the recognition of the French state's responsibility for the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Occupation. Following the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1997, he lost his majority in Parliament and was forced into cohabitation with Lionel Jospin, during which a referendum was held establishing the five-year presidential term: Jacques Chirac was thus the last president of the Fifth Republic to have served a seven-year term.
In the 2002 presidential election, he was re-elected for a five-year term with 82.2% of the vote in the second round, benefiting from a "republican front" against the National Front candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. During his second term, after launching the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he led the international opposition to the Iraq War launched by US President George W. Bush in 2003 and campaigned for a "yes" vote in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, which resulted in a "no" victory.
At the end of his presidency in 2007, faced with low popularity and a succession of electoral defeats, and weakened by a stroke in 2005, he decided not to seek a third term. On June 9, 2008, the "Chirac Foundation" for sustainable development and intercultural dialogue was launched.
Jacques Chirac died in Paris on September 26, 2019.
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Au cœur du Papotin
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La Revanche de Bernadette Chirac
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Mohammed VI - The Limits of Power
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In France with Madonna
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Cent jours
2022-05-03
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
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Mitterrand et la télé
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Lebanon in Crisis
2020-11-17
Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
2020-09-20
30 Years of Democracy
2019-12-22
1974, l'alternance Giscard
2019-10-05
Mon Chirac
2019-03-18
The Perfect Day
2018-06-05
Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons
2017-03-23
Mr & Mme Adelman
2017-03-08
King of Morocco, the secret reign
2016-05-26
Sanctuary
2015-01-21
Le Clan Chirac
2013-02-24
Pierre Mazeaud, la vie en face(s)
2013-01-01
Bernadette Chirac - Un jour, un destin
2012-09-01
The New Watchdogs
2012-01-11
Sarah's Key
2010-09-16
Modern Life
2008-10-29
Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...
2007-04-04
Chirac
2006-10-23
Being Jacques Chirac
2006-05-31
French Kiss
2005-02-22
Celsius 41.11
2004-10-22
One of Many
2004-03-15
1974, une partie de campagne
2002-02-20
Taxi 2
2000-03-25
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
1999-10-14
Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing
1998-11-17
Christo in Paris
1990-12-31
Islands
1987-10-16
Reporters
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