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Chirac campaigned in 1995 on promises of jobs, tax cuts and pay hikes, but he abruptly reversed himself six months later. Result: record low popularity ratings for Chirac and his Prime Minister, Alain Juppe. Last week's result was thus more a rejection of Chirac than a full embrace of the left. The cohabitation may not be easy to manage. Jospin, 59, is an austere former diplomat and economics professor who has promised to change much of the President's economic policy. Chirac, 64, is an instinctive political operator who is determined to trim France's huge welfare state...
...Alain L. Sanders
...resentful of the price of the monetary union--budget cutting and unemployment--than of its audacious surrender of national power. Voters in France, where the jobless rate is 12.8%, made that clear with a massive rebuke to the government of President Jacques Chirac and his now outgoing Prime Minister Alain Juppe...
PARIS: France's highly unpopular Prime Minister Alain Juppe took the fall on Monday for President Jacques Chirac's humiliation in the first round of legislative elections. Loyally accepting the blame for two years of record unemployment, public spending cuts, wage freezes for state workers and general discontent with the government, Juppe said he will quit the premiership no matter what the outcome in next Sunday's runoff vote. It was Juppe who had persuaded Chirac to call for early elections, on the notion that their conservative coalition would fare better now than wait for next year's scheduled election...
...Alain L. Sanders