http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/11/france.chirac.reut/index.html
POSTED: 0206 GMT (1006 HKT), March 11, 2007
STORY HIGHLIGHTS:
• NEW: Chirac urges nation to reject "extremism, racism, anti-Semitism...rejection"
• NEW: Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen calls Chirac departure "a great joy"
• NEW: Chirac says he would have liked to have modernized France more rapidly
• Nicolas Sarkozy, Segolene Royal, Francois Bayrou lead contenders for president
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- President Jacques Chirac announced on Sunday he would not seek re-election next month after 45 years in frontline politics and made a final appeal to French voters to shun extremism.
Chirac, 74, has served as head of state since 1995 and leaves behind a checkered record that consists as much of symbolic gestures as concrete policies.
2 comments:
Email from Eric in Paris
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All,
Here's an entertaining little Papel take on the ever-entertaining French electoral campaign, with a phenomenal photo of the man who may - or may not - be France's next president...
http://leblog.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=521021
My other posts on the French elections, for those who are interested, can be found here:
http://leblog.talk.newsweek.com/?q=eric+pape
Best, Eric
http://leblog.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=524032
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