Word: perrineau
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...election as an independent after the rpr excommunicated him last October. As Chirac tried to distance himself from his troublesome successor, Tiberi often hinted that he would reveal details of financial hanky-panky during Chirac's tenure as mayor. "Tiberi portrays himself as a victim," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center of French Political Life, "but he is the one who is making the right lose Paris. He incarnates the worst of the municipal system-corruption, influence-peddling, mediocrity and nepotism...
...Political analysts caution against assuming that local leftist gains will automatically translate into a Jospin victory in 2002. "If Paris and Lyons go left, people will talk only of that," says Perrineau. "But beware of that interpretation: Paris and Lyons are not France, and Jacques Chirac is far from dead." One possible result of a rightist debacle could be to jolt the divided conservative parties to unite behind Chirac next year. "Today," says Perrineau, "the only man who can bridge the divisions on the right is Chirac. He has the capacity to emerge as the great unifier...