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| | Jean-Pierre Raffarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from May 6, 2002 to May 31, 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. | | | On March 30, 2004 Jean-Pierre Raffarin tendered the resignation of his government to president Jacques Chirac, who immediately re-appointed him prime minister, with the delegation to form a new government. | | | Jean-Pierre Raffarin listen (♫) (born August 3, 1948) is a French conservative politician and senator of Vienne. |
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| | HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA |
| | Raffarin, a moderate right-wing senator and head of the Poitou-Charentes regional council in western France, will now form a government that will be at the center of the conservative campaign to win parliamentary elections on June 9 and 16. | | | Though the son of a former government minister, Raffarin has a grass-roots image that has become his trump card as voters turn against the capital to demand more power at the local and regional level and politicians who understand their concerns. | | | The announcement came barely an hour after Jospin tendered his resignation and that of his government during a 13-minute morning visit to the Elysee Palace offices of Chirac, with whom he spent five years sharing power in an awkward "cohabitation". |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Profile: Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| | Mr Raffarin stressed the need for French politicians to deliver after the shock success of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential elections, and following his coalition's landslide in legislative elections he pledged to live up to voters' demands. | | | Although a minister for small businesses in the 1995-1997 government of Alain Juppe, Mr Raffarin has nonetheless made much of his credentials as a grass-roots politician. | | | A public relations expert, Mr Raffarin is seen as a figure who can appeal to a broad section of the right, while embodying a consensual approach that may also keep some left-wing voters on side. |
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| | President Chirac confirmed Jean-Pierre Raffarin as his prime minister following the right's overwhelming victory in the second round of the French general elections. | | | The heavyweights on the left in marginal seats were the main casualties in the swing to the right in the general election run-off. | | | The "family photograph" of EU leaders at this week's summit in Seville will be an uncomfortable moment for Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe New French PM names cabinet |
| | France's new Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, has unveiled the cabinet which will carry the right's hopes into next month's parliamentary elections. | | | Mr Raffarin was named yesterday as prime minister by Mr Chirac, the day after he trounced the far-right's Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential poll. | | | Mr Raffarin travelled from his own official residence, the Matignon Palace, to the presidential Elysee Palace, from where the announcement was made. |
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http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1972000/1972099.stm
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| | French Leader Fires Premier in Response to E.U. Rejection - New York Times |
| | French President Jacques Chirac bade farewell to former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin in Paris Tuesday morning. | | | Raffarin made a short statement defending his record over the past three years. | | | The former prime minister is being blamed in some quarters for the rejection of the constitution because of opinion surveys indicating that voters used the ballot partly to punish the French government's failure to tackle high unemployment and painful cost-cutting changes. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/international/europe/31cnd-france.html?ex=1275192000&en=73bb8601fb29e708&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | Biography of The Prime Minister of France- Mr. Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| | Jean-Pierre Raffarin was born on Aug. 3, 1948, in Poitiers. | | | Raffarin became Prime Minister of France on May 6, 2002. | | | Raffarin was a municipal councillor for the city of Poitiers and then became a member and chairman of the Poitou-Charentes regional council and a member of the Senate for the Vienne constituency. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/focus/bio_raffarin-en.asp
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| | Monsieur Nice Woos the Lower Class |
| | Jean-Pierre Raffarin, France's new Prime Minister, has a mission to court humble folk in the provinces. | | | The Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is on a pilgrimage round the country to sell his plans to trim the power of the Parisian elites and give more authority to the country's 22 regions. | | | Raffarin's one-time sports and youth adviser, Pierre Beneteau, 64, a retired gym teacher, lives at the wrong end of the Vienne in what he calls ' la France d'en bas de la France d'en bas '. |
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http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-20-2002-22841.asp
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| | TIME Europe Magazine: Madame La Ministre -- Jul. 1, 2002/Vol. 160 No. 1 |
| | Despite links with Socialist leaders dating back to the late President François Mitterrand, the leftist Lenoir was named France's Minister of European Affairs last week by new conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. | | | But her appointment was described by some observers as proof of Raffarin's determination to assemble a government attentive to — and comprising — all segments of French social and political life. | | | When her term as justice expired in 2001, she continued advising the E.U. and was putting together a private legal practice specializing in bioethics issues when she received the call from Raffarin. |
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http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901020701-265376,00.html
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| | Raffarin, Jean-Pierre on Encyclopedia.com |
| | France's prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced in January. | | | Jean-Pierre Raffarin et le ministre de l'Intérieur Dominique de Villepin le 9 août dernier à Combloux Jean-Pierre Raffarin. | | | A conservative, Raffarin turned permanently to politics in 1988 when he became president of the Poitou-Charentes regional council; shortly thereafter he was elected to the European Parliament. |
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| | CNN.com - Chirac appoints new prime minister - May 6, 2002 |
| | PARIS, France-- Conservative senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin has been named interim prime minister of France, succeeding Lionel Jospin who resigned on Monday along with his government. | | | French President Jacques Chirac appoints conservative Sen. Jean-Pierre Raffarin as interim prime minister. | | | Former small businesses minister Raffarin, 53, a loyalist of the re-elected centre-right President Jacques Chirac, will now form an interim government ahead of June parliamentary elections. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/france.president
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| | Master of Disaster - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com |
| | When Raffarin became prime minister in June 2002, he was initially admired for his accessibility in a country where powerful officials often remain aloof. | | | They highlight bickering between Raffarin and high-profile ministers, often speculating on who might replace him. | | | But ironically, given that Raffarin is a former marketing man, his government has been woe-fully maladroit at communicating its programs and proposed solutions to the public. |
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| | The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics |
| | He proceeded to appoint a little known but very amenable regional lackey named Jean-Pierre Raffarin as his Prime Minister. | | | Secondly, the new prime minister named to pilot the ship of state is none other than the old Prime Minister, the always amenable Jean-Pierre Raffarin. | | | When Chirac named the stoop-shouldered Raffarin, he also dictated, in detail, the program the new Prime Minister and his government were supposed to put into place. |
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http://www.thecolumnists.com/dreyfack/dreyfack10.html
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| | Nicole, Pierre on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Jean-Pierre Raffarin et l'ancien ministre de l'Education nationale Luc Ferry jeudi à Matignon De Nicole Fontaine à Francis. | | | Nicole Fontaine Jean-Pierre Raffarin a déclaré jeudi dans un communiqué que sa ministre de l'Industrie Nicole Fontaine éta. | | | Pierre Salinger, aide to J.F. Kennedy, dies at 79 |
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| | MSN Encarta - Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| | Raffarin, Jean-Pierre, born in 1948, prime minister of France from 2002 to 2005. | | | Raffarin was born in Poitiers in west central France. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | French prime minister undergoes surgery - Europe - MSNBC.com |
| | PARIS - French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will remain hospitalized for several days after having gallstones removed Saturday, officials said. | | | Raffarin’s popularity hit a new low in an opinion poll published Friday, deepening doubts that he will keep his job after this month’s referendum on the European Union constitution. | | | Raffarin, who earlier canceled a trip to the eastern city of Reims to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, will not, however, attend celebrations in Paris on Sunday. |
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| | Charest, Jean on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Pierre Raffarin (G) et Jean Charest Le Premier ministre français Jean-Pierre Raffarin et les nouveaux dirigeants du Québec. | | | Jean Charest, leader du parti Libéral, futur nouveau Premier ministre québécois, lundi à Montréal Les Québécois ont porté. | | | Jean Charest a rendu hommage aux soldats québécois tombés le 6 juin 1944 |
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| | French PM sees early government moves after No vote - Boston.com - Europe - News |
| | French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, whose job is seen on the line over France's rejection of the European Union constitution, said he expected political "developments" on Monday or Tuesday. | | | PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, whose job is seen on the line over France's rejection of the European Union constitution, said he expected political "developments" on Monday or Tuesday. | | | "There will be developments later in the day...or tomorrow," Raffarin told reporters as he returned to his office following brief talks with President Jacques Chirac, giving no further details. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/30/french_pm_sees_early_government_moves_after_no_vote?mode=PF
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| | Bell is Tolling for Raffarin |
| | The stinging rebuke delivered to Jean-Pierre Raffarin and his centre-right government in the regional elections on Sunday will probably cost the French prime minister his job, analysts and commentators have said. | | | Most of the prime ministers' 19 cabinet ministers who are running in the regional elections fared badly; one, the civil service minister Jean-Paul Delevoye, in Nord-Pas de Calais, suffered the ignominy of being beaten into third place by the National Front candidate. | | | Voters sent a clear signal of disappointment at France's steadily rising unemployment and anger at the government's cost-cutting reforms in sensitive areas like education, healthcare and pensions that left Mr Chirac facing some difficult decisions on the interrelated futures of Mr Raffarin, his centre-right cabinet, and its budget-squeezing reform plans. |
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| | CNN.com - French PM leaves hospital - May 10, 2005 |
| | PARIS, France-- French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has left hospital after undergoing surgery on his gall bladder, his office says. | | | Raffarin is at the center of speculation that Chirac will dismiss him after the May 29 EU referendum. | | | Raffarin, 56, had gallstones removed on Saturday after his gall bladder became acutely inflamed. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/raffarin.hospital
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| | Single Malt Pundit.com |
| | At the outset of a three-day visit to China, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said he supported Beijing’s “anti-secession” law on Taiwan, and vowed to keep pushing for an end to an EU arms embargo that could open the door for Paris to sell weapons to the Asian giant. | | | Appearing to put his government at odds with the European Union, Raffarin said at the outset of the three day visit that Paris had no objections to the anti-secession law. | | | Prime Minister Raffarin has just stated that he’s pefectly fine with starting the next world war, and they’d love to sell the weapons needed to fight it. |
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http://www.jayreding.com/archives/2005/04/21/france-wants-to-start-the-next-world-war
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| | CNN.com - Chirac to act soon over poll rout - Mar 29, 2004 |
| | In the presidency's first comment on the elections, Chirac's office said he was "working with the Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin) on decisions he will take over the next few days," Reuters reported. | | | Media commentators on Monday saw the defeat as a rejection of Raffarin's government and its reforms of health care and the social security system. | | | The defeat, Chirac's first national test since he and his party swept presidential and legislative polls in 2002, marked a dramatic turnaround from a year ago, when he won praise within France for his opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/29/france.vote
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