GRAPHICS – Former Socialist Prime Minister Chirac was sworn in Tuesday on the occasion of the Elders of vows at the Elysee. With the arrival of Lionel Jospin, they are now four members appointed by the left and five to the right.
Lionel Jospin, return. On the occasion of the Constitutional Council wishes to President François Hollande, former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac made his first steps in his new suit of “Sage”. Appointed by the President of the National Assembly, Claude Bartolone, replacing Jacques Barrot, who died on December 3, Lionel Jospin perform the end of his term, four years and two months. He was sworn in the presence of François Hollande, with whom he exchanged a warm handshake in a salon of the Élysée where the ceremony was taking place behind closed doors. During the Republican ritual, the Head of State asked the new Board member to swear on the Constitution he will fulfill his duties “impartially” keep “the secret deliberations and votes” and will not take “no public position. “
Lionel Jospin, who was eliminated in the first round of the 2002 presidential election in favor of Jean-Marie Le Pen, came out of retirement when the growing concerns on PS possible reissue of such a scenario in 2017. Having succeeded his father as head of the National Front, Marine Le Pen sees polls promise him a qualification for the second round. Despite a quivering of his popularity since Nicolas Sarkozy returned to the head of the UMP, Francois Hollande is threatened and socialists doubt.
At the Constitutional Council, Lionel Jospin will not return to his old rival Jacques Chirac, who resigned in office due to his health. The former prime minister has never accorded a very high regard for the former president. Ironically, Lionel Jospin made his entrance to the Constitutional Council the day Hollande makes a singular tribute to Jacques Chirac in the journal Charles , even calling him a “defender
“The Constitution is not a construction game as you climb up or removing the liking of each other’s moods.”
the Republic “after April 21, 2002. In the former president, he wants to retain” extreme denial, “his own creed in recent weeks as he stepped up warnings against” populism “and recall “principles” Republicans, and the National Front is gaining ground. “It is this dimension that gives coherence to the long journey of Jacques Chirac” who “has never yielded to the extreme right, never deviated from his Republican line,” insists François Hollande in this interview. Most loyal of Jacques Chirac, Jean-Louis Debré have appreciated the tribute.
Before the Head of State, President of the Constitutional Council has stuck to extol the virtues of the Constitution . “Not to our institutions to look for the source of our difficulties in making the necessary economic and social reforms, said Jean-Louis Debré. The big night could not, in the matter, being a great back. We discard the chaotic path of institutional sorcerer’s apprentice. ” An allusion to the debate, recurrent PS on the Sixth Republic. “The Constitution is not a construction game as you climb up or dismantled depending on the mood of each other,” said Jean-Louis Debré, whose term ends in March 2016.
With the arrival of Lionel Jospin, the Constitutional Council now has four members appointed by the left and five to the right, including a Socialist, Michel Charasse appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy. The appointment of Lionel Jospin did not make waves right, she was even welcomed. According to the UMP rapporteur of the Committee on Laws, William Larrivé, who had interviewed the former prime minister, who has “three outstanding qualities: the experience of the state, the personal impartiality, which is a virtue, and probably fidelity to traditional principles of our Republic. ”
A useful virtue for this position where you have to “know temper the enthusiasm of the majority of the time,” according to opposition MP.
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