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...former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal--or even become Jacques Chirac's successor...
...JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, confirming he would not seek a third term in France's forthcoming elections, ending his 12-year tenure...
...moment has come for me to serve you in a different way." JACQUES CHIRAC French President, announcing he would not seek a third term in France's April elections...
...Bayrou, adding that this malaise has seen French voters turf out the incumbents in every parliamentary election of the last 25 years. He lists further symptoms. Extreme-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the second round of the 2002 presidential elections and is running strong now too. Jacques Chirac, the outgoing President, found common ground with his Socialist opponents to promote the proposed European constitution, which was nevertheless voted down in a May 2005 referendum by a huge majority. Strikes and riots regularly convulse France. For Bayrou, it's all proof that the nation's political leadership no longer...
...gaffology is getting out of hand. An obviously unintended misstatement is significant only if you think the speaker has accidentally revealed something true about himself or herself. It ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: Bush's Pentagon doesn't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children--a form of prejudice so convoluted that I doubt anyone actually suffers from...