On 14 July 2012, French President François Hollande announced that Lionel Jospin would lead a commission on deontology and ethics in French political life.

That same year, Jospin became the Prime Minister of France, and Hollande won the election for his successor as First Secretary of the French Socialist Party, a position he would hold for eleven years.

The immediate resignation of Jospin from politics following his shock defeat by far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of the 2002 presidential election forced Hollande to become the public face of the party for the 2002 legislative election but, although he managed to limit defeats and was re-elected in his own constituency, the Socialists lost nationally.

At this point, polls showed her to be much more popular than her closest competitor, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, and other Socialist heavyweights Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jack Lang, another former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and François Hollande.

From 1995 until 1997, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was a partner in Jeantet & Co, a French business law firm, which he left at the request of the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to become his Deputy Principal Private Secretary until 2000, during which he contributed to France ’ s entry into the Euro Zone.

* Archives of the official web sites of Prime Minister Jospin: 1997 – 1998, 1998 – 2000, 2000 – 2002

The Académie française sets an official standard of language purity ; however, this standard, which is not mandatory, is even occasionally ignored by the government itself: for instance, the left-wing government of Lionel Jospin pushed for the feminization of the names of some functions ( madame la ministre ) while the Académie pushed for some more traditional madame le ministre.

Dominique Voynet was to lead the party into government for the first time, joining Lionel Jospin ’ s Socialist Party ( PS ) and the Communist Party ( PCF ).

Indeed, the mitterrandist group in the party split because Jospin ' followers allied with the others factions to prevent the election of Fabius as First Secretary.

When Ségolène Royal became ascendant in the polls, however, Jospin retracted his candidacy in order not to " divide the party ".

On 5 June 2001, Lionel Jospin confessed before the Parliament that he had maintained links with a trotskyist formation " in the 1960s " and had maintained links with Pierre Lambert's party ( the Internationalist Communist Organization, OCI ) after his entrance in the Socialist Party in 1971.

Later in 2002, although the candidacy of then-PM Jospin was undisputed in his party, each of the 5 left-wing parties of the government he led sent a candidate ... paving the way for a loss of all five.

Some other party leaders, such as former prime minister Lionel Jospin, disapproved publicly of same-sex marriages.

The new party included Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, who had left the RPCR in 2001 and supported Lionel Jospin in the French presidential election, 2002 ; Harold Martin, Lafleur ’ s dauphin but excluded in 2003 for running a dissident list in the 2001 local elections ; and Philippe Gomès, a friend of Martin.

Lionel Jospin, who became the socialist candidate as French President in 1995, made her his campaign spokesman during the presidential campaign.

President Chirac named Jospin prime minister on June 2, and Jospin went on to form a Plural Left government composed primarily of Socialist ministers, along with some ministers from allied parties of the left, such as the Communist Party and the Greens.

Despite his previous image as a rigid socialist, Jospin went on selling state-owned enterprises, lowered the VAT rate, income tax and company tax.

The matter then went before Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, since extraditions, after having been approved by courts, must be ordered by the executive.

The Socialist Party ( PS ), joined by other parties on the left, soundly defeated Chirac's conservative allies, forcing Chirac into a new period of cohabitation with Jospin as prime minister ( 1997 – 2002 ), which lasted five years.

Lionel Jospin, who was Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002, retired on the island after his withdrawal from political life.

Jospin stated his support for continued European integration and his intention to keep France on the path towards Economic and Monetary Union, albeit with greater attention to social concerns.

His government also introduced the 35-hour workweek, provided additional health insurance for those on the lowest incomes through the creation of CMU ( which made health care in France a universal right, and was regarded by Lionel Jospin and Martine Aubry as one of the “ beacons ” of their incumbency ), promoted the representation of women in politics, expanded the social security system, and created the PACS – a civil partnership or union between two people, whether of opposite genders or not.

The Jospin Government also began taxing capital assets by introducing a tax on savings, particularly life insurance.

* All TV archives on Lionel Jospin – INA Archives Télé

While it was pushed by the government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1998, it was also opposed, mostly by people on the right-wing who support traditionalist family values and who argued that PACS and the recognition of homosexual unions would be disastrous for French society.

Rousset also hosts an 8 inch ( 200 mm ) fab which was opened on 15 May 2000 by French prime minister Lionel Jospin.

In June 1997, one of the first actions of Lionel Jospin on becoming Prime Minister was to announce the closure of the plant " because of its excessive costs ".

Her status as a presidential candidate became more likely on 28 September 2006, when Lionel Jospin, the Socialist former Prime Minister and a fixture in French politics for nearly three decades, announced that he would not run after all.

A law passed in February 2002, introduced by Royal on behalf of the Jospin government, allows some parental authority to be granted to same-sex partners.

She said that the liberalization of the French public utilities had been ratified by the former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin during the Barcelona summit on 15 and 16 March 2002.

While it was pushed by the government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, it was also opposed, mostly by people on the right-wing who opposed gay rights, such as Christine Boutin and Philippe de Villiers, who argued that PACS and the recognition of homosexual unions would be disastrous for French society.

In 2001, while the French DTT is only in the state of project in France, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin asks to the president of France Télévisions to think about a project of bouquet of public channels broadcasted on the French DTT, so that the public utility holds a place of choice in this project.

After receiving this report, prime minister Lionel Jospin addressed the Assemblée Nationale on 10 October 1998 and announced his decision to withdraw.

This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of Le Pen's unexpected victory over Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin and subsequent appearance in the runoff election.

PS leader Lionel Jospin lost his bid to succeed Mitterrand as president in the 1995 presidential election against Rally for the Republic leader Jacques Chirac, but became prime minister in a cohabitation government after the 1997 parliamentary elections, a position Jospin held until 2002, when he was again defeated in the presidential election.

Jospin, again the Socialists ' candidate, was eliminated in the first round due to there being too many left-wing candidates who split the vote.

Under Lionel Jospin ( the socialist who was prime minister under president Jacques Chirac from 1997 to 2002 ), the PCF again held ministerial offices from 1997 to 2002 ( Jean-Claude Gayssot as Minister of Transportation, etc .).

Lionel Jospin (; born 12 July 1937 ) is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.

In 1993, Lionel Jospin was appointed ministre plénipotentiaire, 2nd class ( a rank of ambassador ), a position that he held until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1997.

Jospin served as Prime Minister during France's third " cohabitation " government under President Jacques Chirac from 1997 to 2002.

Altogether, the social and economic policies implemented by the Jospin Government helped to reduce social and economic inequalities, with income inequality in terms of the Gini coefficient falling between 1997 and 2001.

In 1997, he stood by the idea of Gauche Plurielle (" Pluralist Left ") which brought the leftist politics back in power with Lionel Jospin ; Hue became a deputy, and the government included a number of Communists.

This " Plural Left " won the 1997 legislative election and Jospin became Prime Minister of the third " cohabitation ".

* Lionel Jospin ( 1995 – 1997 )

His supporters within the Socialist Party became allies of candidate Lionel Jospin, who was Prime Minister in 1997 – 2002, and then Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Founded in 1920, it participated in three governments: in the provisional government of the Liberation ( 1944 – 1947 ), at the beginning of François Mitterrand's presidency ( 1981 – 1984 ) and in Plural Left's cabinet led by Lionel Jospin ( 1997 – 2002 ).

A member of the French Socialist Party, Allègre is better known to the general public for his past political responsibilities, which include serving as Minister of Education of France in the Jospin cabinet from 4 June 1997 to March 2000, when he was replaced by Jack Lang.

Diplomatic adviser of President Mitterrand, he served as secretary-general of the presidency from 1991 to 1995, then as Foreign Minister in the government of Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002.

From 1997 to 2002, he was Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin.

When Lionel Jospin became Prime Minister in 1997, he became Minister of Health for the second time.

In 1997, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin ( PS ) appointed Strauss-Kahn as Minister for Economics, Finance and Industry, making him one of the most influential ministers in his Plural Left government.

However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was appointed Prime Minister in 1997.