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Jean-Pierre Raffarin OQ (born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005. He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular Prime Ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However, according to the book France: 1815–2003, written by Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godwin, Raffarin was "a remarkably popular Prime Minister" despite his ability "to state the obvious and to make empty statements". He was also Vice President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014. Born 3 August 1948, Raffarin grew up in Poitiers, the son of a prominent national figure: his father Jean Raffarin was vice-minister of Agriculture in the government of Pierre Mendes-France (1954–1955). He studied law at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas and later graduated from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He started his professional career in marketing. In the 1970s, his first political commitment was in the association of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's young supporters. Defining himself as a "giscardien", he joined the staff of Lionel Stoléru, Secretary of state for Manual Workers and Immigration, and the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the centre-right confederation the Union for French Democracy (UDF). In the 1980s, he started a career in local politics in Poitou-Charentes region. With the support of René Monory, the local political leader, he took the chair of the regional council in 1988. Seven years later, he was elected senator of Vienne département. ... Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Raffarin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. |
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, né le 3 août 1948 à Poitiers (Vienne), est un homme d'État français, Premier ministre de 2002 à 2005. Il est président du conseil régional de Poitou-Charentes de 1988 à 2002 et ministre des Petites et moyennes entreprises, du Commerce et de l'Artisanat dans les gouvernements d'Alain Juppé, entre 1995 et 1997. Député européen, puis sénateur, il est nommé Premier ministre par le président Jacques Chirac après l'élection présidentielle de 2002. À Matignon, il mène une politique de réformes et favorise notamment la décentralisation. Souffrant d'une importante impopularité, il démissionne après le référendum sur le traité établissant une constitution pour l'Europe de 2005. Cadre historique de l'Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), il assure l'intérim à la tête du parti pendant quelques mois en 2014. Candidat par deux fois (en 2008 et en 2014) à la primaire interne à l'UMP pour la présidence du Sénat, il est battu par Gérard Larcher. Il démissionne de son mandat de sénateur en 2017, et se concentre depuis sur la collaboration entre la France et le régime chinois. |
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