Lionel Jospin May 13, 2014 & # xE0; Tourcoing
Lionel Jospin May 13, 2014 in Tourcoing – Philippe Huguen AFP

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Only fools do not change their minds. A proverb that Lionel Jospin has done his.

The former Socialist Prime Minister agreed to succeed Jacques Barrot, who died suddenly on December 3, the Constitutional Council, on a proposal from the President of the Assembly National has is it said Tuesday in the entourage of Claude Bartolone, confirming a report in World .

Now, May 8, 2012, interviewed on France Inter to whether such a position among the Sages of Montpensier street might interest Lionel Jospin replied that stop on this hypothesis, even “a few seconds” is “a few seconds too long.” Adding so do not lie “at all in the prospects of this type.”



A “great politician” who is struggling to retire

Still, right and left, the arrival of Lionel Jospin to the Constitutional Council is welcomed. Prague where he is visiting, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who was an aide to Lionel Jospin at Matignon, welcomed the arrival of the High Council of the “great politician”. A UDI and the UMP, obviously, we do not regret that choice.

77 years of age, Lionel Jospin led for five years Matignon (1997-2002) before being eliminated first round of presidential elections. A failure that led him to announce his retirement from political life. But not completely. In 2006, a year before the 2007 presidential election, he has blown hot and cold on his possible candidacy.

Former MP, former First Secretary of the Socialist Party, former Minister, the technocrat rubbed History ( he has just published Napoleonic Evil ) was entrusted in July 2012 by President Francois Hollande, newly elected leadership of a commission on the renewal of public life.