Lionel Robert Jospin (born July 12, 1937 in Meudon, a suburb of Paris) is a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997-2002. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Lionel_Jospin. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Meudon is a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine département in northern France. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The term statesman is a respectful term used to refer to diplomats, politicians, and other notable figures of state. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Jospin was the French Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. In 2002 he was stunningly eliminated in the first round after finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, and immediately announced his retirement from politics. The emblem of the French Socialist Party The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Runoff voting is a voting system used in single-seat elections. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jacques René Chirac â–¶(?), (born November 29, 1932 in Paris) is a French politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search Portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen. ...

Studies and early political career

Lionel Jospin was born in a Protestant family. He studied at Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Institut détudes politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies), familiarly known as Sciences Po, is Frances premier institute for the study and research of politics, international relations, and other related subjects. ... Jump to: navigation, search The École nationale dadministration (generally known as ENA) is the school where many of France senior officials are instructed. ...

He joined the French Socialist Party in 1971, and became the leader of the party when François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981. He served as Minister of Education between 1988 and 1992. Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand [â–¶] (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was a French politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

As a member of the National Assembly, Jospin served first as a representative of Paris (1978-86), and then of Haute-Garonne (1986-88). Jospin lost his seat in the National Assembly in the Socialists' landslide defeat in the legislative elections of 1993. Jump to: navigation, search i dont like this page. ...

In 1995, Jospin was selected to be the Socialist candidate for President. Following the Socialists' landslide defeat in the parliamentary elections two years earlier, Jospin was considered to have little chance of victory. But he did surprisingly well, losing only very narrowly to Jacques Chirac in the final runnoff election. Despite defeat, his performance was seen to mark a revival of the Socialists as a strong force in French politics. Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Two years later, Chirac decided to call an early election for the National Assembly, hoping for a personal endorsement. But the move backfired as the Socialists regained a parliamentary majority and Jospin became Prime Minister.

Prime Minister

Despite his previous image as a rigid socialist, Jospin went on selling state participations, lowered the VAT rate, income tax and company tax. Value added tax (VAT) is a sales tax levied on the sale of goods and services. ...

His government also introduced the 35-hour week, provided additional health insurance for the poorest, promoted the representation of women in politics, and created the PACS (a civil partnership or union between two people, whether of opposite genders or not). During his term, with the help of a favorable economic situation, unemployment fell by 900,000. In France, a pacte civil de solidarité (English: civil pact of solidarity) commonly known as a PACS, is a form of civil union between two adults (of the same or opposite sex) for organising their joint life. ... A civil union is one of several terms for a civil status similar to marriage, typically created for the purposes of allowing homosexual couples access to the benefits enjoyed by married heterosexuals (see also same-sex marriage); it can also be used by couples of differing sexes who do not...

Jospin was a candidate in the presidential campaign of 2002. While he appeared to have momentum in the early stages, the campaign came to be focused mainly on law-and-order issues, in which, it was argued, the government had not achieved convincing results; this coincided with a strong focus of the media on a number of egregious crime cases. The Prime Minister was also strongly criticized by the far left for his moderate economic policies, which, they contended, were not markedly different from that of a right-wing government favoring business people and free markets. Many left-wing candidates contested the election, gaining small percentages of the vote in the first ballot, chipping away at Jospin's support. As a result, Jospin narrowly polled in third place, behind Chirac and the Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, and thus did not go through to the runoff second round of voting. (The story of the campaign is told in the documentary Comme un coup de tonnerre.) // Second Round First Round General Summary On May 1, Labour Day, the yearly demonstrations for workers rights were compounded by protests against Jean-Marie Le Pen. ... This article is about the French political party, not the WWII French resistance movement Front National. ... Jump to: navigation, search Portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen. ... Comme un coup de tonnerre is a French documentary about socialist candidate Lionel Jospins campaign of 2002 for president and his subsequent ousting from the second election turn by Jean-Marie Le Pen. ...

Following his defeat in April 2002, Jospin immediately declared his decision to leave politics and stepped down as Prime Minister. He has since made episodic comments on current political affairs; for instance, he declared his opposition to same-sex marriage. In 2005, he returned to the national political scene by campaigning forcefully in favor of the proposed European Constitution. Jump to: navigation, search Same-sex marriage is marriage between individuals who are of the same legal or biological sex. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ...

Trotskyist past

During his school years in the 1960s, Jospin joined the Internationalist Communist Organization, a secretive group dedicated to an unreconstructed Trotskyist program of overthrowing France's parliamentary democracy for the "dictatorship of the proletariat". He remained active in it during the 1970s while also serving as a trusted member of the Socialist Party. Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The Party of the Workers (Parti des Travailleurs or PT), is a French Troskyist party. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Jump to: navigation, search The dictatorship of the proletariat is a term employed by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program that refers to a transition period between capitalist and communist society in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. ...

Jospin concealed this relationship, and specifically denied it when asked about it later. In 2001, investigative journalists and successive revelations by former Communist associates showed him to have been lying, and he confessed the truth. Having lied hurt him politically more than having been in a cell of the revolutionary left, but the political damage was not severe or long-lasting in France — various other left-wing or right-wing politicians having had stints with radical groups in their youth, then later denying them or blaming them on youthful indiscretion (see Occident, Alain Madelin for instance). Occident, like many similar groups, used the celtic cross as its emblem. ... Alain Madelin (born March 26, 1946) is a French politician and a former minister of that country. ...

See also:

• Politics of France
• List of Prime Ministers of France

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Jospin's Ministry, 4 June 1997 - 7 May 2002

• Lionel Jospin - Prime Minister
• Hubert Védrine - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alain Richard - Minister of Defense
• Jean-Pierre-Chevènement - Minister of the Interior
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry
• Martine Aubry - Minister of Employment and Solidarity
• Elisabeth Guigou - Minister of Justice
• Claude Allègre - Minister of National Education, Research, and Technology.
• Catherine Trautmann - Minister of Culture and Communication
• Louis Le Pensec - Minister of Agriculture and Forests
• Dominique Voynet - Minister of Environment and Regional Planning
• Marie-George Buffet - Minister of Youth and Sport
• Jean-Claude Gayssot - Minister of Transport, Housing, and Equipment
• Daniel Vaillant - Minister of Relations with Parliament
• Émile Zuccarelli - Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Decentralization

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• 20 October 1998 - Jean Glavany succeeds Le Pensec as Minister of Agriculture and Forests.
• 2 November 1999 - Christian Sautter succeeds Strauss-Kahn as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry.
• 28 March 2000 - Laurent Fabius succeeds Sautter as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry. Jack Lang succeeds Allègre as Minister of National Education, while Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg succeeds him as Minister of Research and Technology. Catherine Tasca succeeds Trautmann as Minister of Culture and Communication. Michel Sapin succeeds Zuccarelli as Minister of Civil Service and Reform of the State.
• 29 August 2000 - Daniel Vaillant succeeds Chevènement as Minister of the Interior. Jean-Jack Queyranne succeeds Vaillant as Minister of Relations with Parliament.
• 18 October 2000 - Elisabeth Guigou succeeds Aubry as Minister of Employment and Solidarity. Marylise Lebranchu succeeds Guigou as Minister of Justice.
• 10 July 2001 - Yves Cochet succeeds Voynet as Minister of Environment and Regional Planning.
• 25 February 2002 - François Patriat succeeds Glavany as Minister of Agriculture and Forests.

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External links

• Archives of the official web sites of Prime Minister Jospin: 1997-1998, 1998-2000, 2000-2002