Jospin stated, however, that he would not a priori leave any domain exclusively to the President, as that was a tradition issued from de Gaulle.

Jospin himself stated that he had only maintained " private relationship " with OCI members after his entrance to the PS.

Lower-income sections of the population received targeted support, and almost all tax measures introduced by the Jospin Government sought to stimulate demand and reduce inequality.

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 French parliament adopted the law with broad cross-party support under the government of center-right president Jacques Chirac and socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin.

This helped to strengthen his popularity and managed to win the support of former supporters of Lionel Jospin and Michel Rocard, making him the leader of the reform-oriented group Socialisme et démocratie.

M. Jospin noted that, in February 1998, the French government had identified respect for cultural differences as a requirement for French support for the agreement.

Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin.

This was enough to qualify him for the second round, as a result of the poor showing by the PS candidate and incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin and the scattering of votes among 15 other candidates.

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 ).

The Left, led by Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin, whom Chirac had defeated in the 1995 presidential race, unexpectedly won a solid National Assembly majority ( 319 seats, with 289 required for an absolute majority ).

Chirac and Jospin worked together, for the most part, in the foreign affairs field with representatives of the presidency and the government pursuing a single, agreed French policy.

Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002.

When President Mitterrand decided, in 1982 – 1983, to change his economic policy in giving the priority at the struggle against inflation and for a hard currency, Jospin justified his choice in saying the Socialist power open just a " parenthesis ".

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 made it possible for SMEs to jointly establish this kind of fund.

In 2006, Jospin made it known that he was " available " to be the Socialist candidate for the 2007 presidential election.

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.

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.

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.

If they are not re-elected or reappointed, they may ask for their reintegration into their service ( see Lionel Jospin and Philippe Séguin for examples ).

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.

In the run-up to the 2007 French presidential election, he endorsed Lionel Jospin, then Dominique Strauss-Kahn, for the Socialist nomination, and finally sided with the ex-Socialist Jean-Pierre Chevènement, against Ségolène Royal.

In France, Trotskyist organizations, most notably the Parti des Travailleurs and its predecessors, have successfully entered trade unions and mainstream left-wing parties ( see Lionel Jospin for a famous example ).

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.

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

In 1999 the Socialist government of Lionel Jospin signed the Council of Europe ’ s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, but it was not ratified.

* the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, supported by Lionel Jospin and his friends, who wished to keep the status quo of the 2007 campaign and come back to the Plural Left ;

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

In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.

** 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.

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

Jacques Chirac ( who said, upon hearing of Senghor's death: " Poetry has lost one of its masters, Senegal a statesman, Africa a visionary and France a friend ") and Lionel Jospin, respectively president of the French Republic and the prime minister, did not attend.

* Head of government: Laurent Fabius ( France ), Michel Rocard ( France ), Édouard Balladur ( France ), Alain Juppé ( France ), Lionel Jospin ( France ), Dominique de Villepin ( France ), Edem Kodjo ( Togo ), Alfred Sant ( Malta ), André Milongo ( Republic of the Congo ), Patrick Leclercq ( Monaco ), Jean-Paul Proust ( Monaco ), Brigi Rafini ( Niger ).

* Lionel Jospin, former France prime minister was born here.

This policy was adopted by the governments of Herbert Hoover in the United States and Lionel Jospin in France, in the 35 hour working week ( though in France various exemptions to the law were granted by later centre-right governments ).

There, he befriended the future Prime Minister of France Lionel Jospin ( PS ).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

* All TV archives on Lionel Jospin – INA Archives Télé

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 ".

Jospin selected Hollande to become the official party spokesman, and Hollande went on to contest Corrèze once again in 1997, successfully returning to the National Assembly.

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.

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