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Jacques Chirac
Chirac in 1997
22nd President of France
In office 17 May 1995 – 16 May 2007
Prime Minister
Alain Juppé
Lionel Jospin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Dominique de Villepin
Preceded by
François Mitterrand
Succeeded by
Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minister of France
In office 20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988
President
François Mitterrand
Preceded by
Laurent Fabius
Succeeded by
Michel Rocard
In office 27 May 1974 – 25 August 1976
President
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Preceded by
Pierre Messmer
Succeeded by
Raymond Barre
Mayor of Paris
In office 20 March 1977 – 16 May 1995
Deputy
Christian de La Malène
Jean Tiberi
Preceded by
Office re-established
Succeeded by
Jean Tiberi
President of Rally for the Republic
In office 5 December 1976 – 4 November 1994
Preceded by
Party established
Succeeded by
Alain Juppé
Political offices 1970–1979
Minister of the Interior
In office 27 February 1974 – 28 May 1974
Prime Minister
Pierre Messmer
Preceded by
Raymond Marcellin
Succeeded by
Michel Poniatowski
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
In office 7 July 1972 – 27 February 1974
Prime Minister
Pierre Messmer
Preceded by
Michel Cointat [fr]
Succeeded by
Raymond Marcellin
Minister for Parliamentary Relations
In office 7 January 1971 – 5 July 1972
Prime Minister
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Preceded by
Roger Frey
Succeeded by
Robert Boulin
President of the General Council of Corrèze
In office 15 March 1970 – 25 March 1979
Preceded by
Élie Rouby [fr]
Succeeded by
Georges Debat [fr]
Additional positions
(see § Offices and distinctions)
Personal details
Born
Jacques René Chirac
(1932-11-29)29 November 1932 Paris, France
Died
26 September 2019(2019-09-26) (aged 86) Paris, France
Resting place
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Political party
See list
PCF (before 1962)
UNR (1962–1968)
UDR (1968–1976)
RPR (1976–2002)
UMP (2002–2007)
Spouse
Bernadette Chodron de Courcel
(m. 1956)
Children
3, including Claude and Anh Dao Traxel
Alma mater
Sciences Po
ENA
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
French Fourth Republic
Branch/service
French Army
Years of service
1954–1957
Rank
Second lieutenant
Jacques René Chirac (French:[ʒakʁəneʃiʁak]ⓘ; UK: /ˈʃɪəræk/,[1][2]US: /ʒɑːkʃɪəˈrɑːk/ⓘ;[2][3][4] 29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France[5] from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
After attending the École nationale d'administration, Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, entering politics shortly thereafter. Chirac occupied various senior positions, including minister of agriculture and minister of the interior. In 1981 and 1988, he unsuccessfully ran for president as the standard-bearer for the conservative Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR). Chirac's internal policies initially included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation.[6] After pursuing these policies in his second term as prime minister, he changed his views. He argued for different economic policies and was elected president in 1995, with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, beating Socialist Lionel Jospin, after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale).[7] 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".[8]
He was also known for his stand against the American-led invasion of Iraq, his recognition of the collaborationist French government's role in deporting Jews, and his reduction of the presidential term from seven years to five through a referendum in 2000. At the 2002 presidential election, he won 82.2% of the vote in the second round against the far-right candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and was the last president to be re-elected until 2022.
In 2011, the Paris court declared Chirac guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, giving him a two-year suspended prison sentence.[9]
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^"Chirac". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^"Chirac". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^He was ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra
^Privatization Is Essential, Chirac Warns Socialists: Resisting Global Currents, France Sticks to Being French Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, International Herald Tribune.
^"Jacques Chirac President of France from 1995 to 2007". Bonjourlafrance.net. Archived from the original on 7 August 2004. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^Giavazzi, Francesco; Alberto Alesina (2006). The Future of Europe: Reform Or Decline. MIT Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-262-01232-4.
^France, Connexion. "Chirac gets 2-year suspended sentence". connexionfrance.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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