Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin (3)

This article presents the composition and the big events of the Gouvernement of the France under the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin of the March 30th 2004 to the May 31st 2005. It is about the third government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

Composition of the Government

The composition of the government of the third government formed by Jean-Pierre Raffarin was announced Wednesday March 31st 2004 towards 19:15.

Political context

In spite of a very important governmental line defeat, however very definitely amplified by the existence in all the areas the triangular ones (governmental left plain/right/National front) and by the novel mode of poll adopted for the regional elections which gives 25% of the seats in premium to the list arrived at the head, the president Jacques Chirac takes back the first outgoing minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and charges it with forming the new government.

A true “pink wave” submerges the country, and the left controls from now on 20 areas out of 22, except the Alsace and the Corsica . Four traditional bastions of right-hand side are gained by the left: Auvergne, Brittany, Country of the Loire and Poitou-Charentes, “stronghold” of the Prime Minister, taken by old the minister Ségolène Royal.

The cantonal ones were also the occasion of results more mitigated a little for the line, the possible changes were moderated by the fact that only the half of the general advisers were renewable, and the line thus remains majority in a great number of departments, even if the plain left is majority compared to the governmental line on the worldwide. To note, the loss of the department of Loire-Atlantique, always on the right since 1790.

Regional like cantonal, are intermediate elections, but for 25 years, the majorities in place, of right-hand side like left, have always lost the intermediate elections. Francois Fillon speaks about a “ April 21st with back ”. After collapse, electoral, political and moral of the left in April 2002, it is it governmental line tower.

However, according to the majority of the observers, including in its rows, the left did not gain on its ideas and its proposals. These elections must rather be regarded as the sanction of the ballot boxes for the governmental line which pays:

  • the growing social insecurity (unemployment, business of the erased unemployed, delocalizations accelerated, etc).
  • “zapping electoral” of an increasingly great part voters;
  • the division of the camp “of the right-hand sides”, divided between an UDF which wants to be affirmed, in reaction the attempt at sole party of the right-hand side which UMP had tried, and a National front, whose voters are less and less inclined to play the firemen savers for the governmental line.

France is installed for three years in a new form of cohabitation, either with the report heading, but central capacity held by the governmental line and a regional capacity from now on with the hands of the left, which will be strongly tried to make a political instrument of it, for a reconquest of the Elys3ee palace and of Matignon. A completely new case of figure sour Ve République and which makes think of Germany with its länders of the hands of the right-hand side and the federal capacity of the hands of the left. The French left took again strength, but it is always “orphan” of a true charismatic leader.

Note: These elections confirmed in addition that the National front is with revolving major of its evolution:

  • Its presence is standardized today on the political field and it is part from now on of the French political scene as a major actor;
  • Its electorate becomes increasingly faithful (17,5% compared with 15,27% in 1998) and attracts as much, if not more, on its ideas that on its personalities;
  • At the time of these local elections, traditionally unfavourable for him, it as well made as for the presidential one and the legislative ones. It also develops in the departments where it was historically the least best established;
  • the adventure Bruno Mégret ends, although it seems that the majority of the voters megretists did not return yet to a vote FN, moreover the dimension of Nicolas Sarkozy seems also very high among many voters FN, who could refer on him in the event of candidature of this last for the presidential one, however the activism of Sarkozy in the field of safety did not succeed in suppressing the progression of the FN;
  • From now on, more the big problems for this party, resides in fact in the way in which will be prepared and regulated the succession of Jean-Marie Le Pen, its old historical leader (74 years).

Chronology

March 2004

April 2004

  • April 14th, 2004: Philippe Briand, Secretary of State to Town and country planning, resigned of its functions for professional reasons and will be replaced at this station by Frederic de Saint-Sernin. Mayor of Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire) since 1989, Philippe Briand, 43 years, chairs the real management group Citya and directs a cabinet of insurances. He had made his entry on March 31st in the government Raffarin III. The ex-secretary of State, which directs a company of more than 400 paid “in a very competing sector”, did not succeed in ensuring his succession within a short time. “He prefers to give up his ministerial position and to continue to deal with his company. He did not want period of undulation nor to be likely to put his company in difficulty”, one indicated. explanation of the Barber

June 2004

  • June 13rd, 2004: Elected appointed European, the Secretary of State to sustainable development, Tokia Saïfi, left the government. Its departure E returned official Monday, June 21, 2004. It will not be replaced. The Secretariat of disappearing state, the entirety of the relative files to the Sustainable development is allocated to the Minister for the ecology, Serge Lepeltier, under the authority of which Tokia Saïfi was placed.

May 2005

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