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

As a member of the National Assembly, Jospin served first as a representative of Paris ( 1978 – 86 ), and then of Haute-Garonne département ( 1986 – 88 ).

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.

* 1937 – Lionel Jospin, French politician, 165th Prime Minister of France

** Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France

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

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.

But the move backfired as the " Plural Left " obtained a parliamentary majority and Jospin became Prime Minister.

Following his defeat in April 2002, Jospin immediately declared his decision to leave politics and stepped down as Prime Minister.

* Lionel Jospin – Prime Minister

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ".

Jospin remained Prime Minister until the elections of 2002, making this third term of cohabitation the longest ever — five years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The rise of Bayrou's poll numbers in February, however, complicated this " Sarko-Ségo " scenario, and raised the distinct possibility that the Parti Socialiste candidate would be excluded from the second round for a second straight election cycle, following the humiliating defeat of former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 2002 at the hands of right wing nationalist Jean Marie Le Pen.

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.

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

In the same manner, if Socialist Prime minister Lionel Jospin personally expressed himself last year 2000 talking about " tragic events ", neither the police's responsibility in the crime nor the responsibility of the political responsibles at the time have been clearly established and much less officially condemned.

* Lionel Jospin – Minister of National Education, Sport, Research, and Technology

Hubert Curien succeeds Jospin as Minister of Research and Technology.

Jospin remains Minister of National Education and Sport.

* Lionel Jospin – Minister of National Education

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 .).

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.

Jospin mostly steered clear of foreign policies during his time in government.

In 1990, during the Rennes Congress, the " Mitterrandist group " split between the supporters of Laurent Fabius and the friends of Lionel Jospin.

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.

The French government has over the past decade, most particularly during the premiership of Lionel Jospin, consistently condemned and criticised the Irish corporation tax system.

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

However, a third contender, Jean-Marie Le Pen, unexpectedly obtained slightly more than Jospin in the first round of elections:

Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin places third and announces his retirement from politics.

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 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.

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.