Jean-Louis Debré today released a book on the former president. He referred to figaro.fr few highlights of the career of Jacques Chirac.
, faithful Jacques Chirac, is one of the few to make it regularly visit. “I told him the news. It raises many questions, more than he speaks, “says Le Figaro President of the Constitutional Council whose book” The World According to Jacques Chirac “(Tallandier editions) comes out on Thursday.
” How to see -you things? “and asked the former president Jean-Louis Debré, came to see him in the aftermath of January. “When I tried to tell him of the events, to describe her protests, I felt anguish. I read it in his eyes. But at the same time, it’s not quite the world … “says one who knows Jacques Chirac for nearly fifty years.
The political fight that most marked his mentor? No doubt the presidential campaign of 1994-1995 and its rivalry with Edouard Balladur. When, in early 1995, the popularity of the two candidates curves are inverted for the first time in favor of Jacques Chirac, it launches Debré “Balladur is like ancient pottery. It supports decorations, no fire. “
The” defection “of Nicolas Sarkozy, left to join the camp of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac also reach many. “This is a subject still difficult to discuss with him,” says his frequent visitor.
However, the transfer of power on 17 May 1995, during a happy surprise for new president, “François Mitterrand hosted and led to his office. To please him, he had put the room to the same period of General de Gaulle. Even furniture provision. Suddenly, the investiture took a little late. But the gesture was nice! “
The political career of Jacques Chirac? His convictions? Jean-Louis Debré said: “It is politically unclassifiable. It is not dogmatic. In a kind of Gaullist tradition, it is neither the right nor the left. But right AND AND the left. He started very left by selling Humanity, attended, led by his friend Rocard, meetings of socialist section that quickly deemed too sectarian, but has not, so far, has joined the Gaullists, too conservative in his eyes. “
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