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Up for sale the "Prime Minister of France" Jean-Pierre Raffarin Hand Signed 8X6 Color Photo.
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politician who served as Prime Minister of France from
6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005. He resigned after France's rejection of draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said
that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls
following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least
popular Prime Ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However,
according to the book France: 1815–2003, written by Martin Evans
and Emmanuel Godwin, Raffarin was "a remarkably popular Prime
Minister" despite his ability "to state the obvious and to make empty
statements". He was also Vice
President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014. Born 3 August 1948,
Raffarin grew up in Poitiers as the son of a prominent
national figure: his father Jean
Raffarin was a vice-minister of Agriculture in the government
of Pierre Mendes-France (1954–1955).[1] He studied law at Panthéon-Assas University] and later graduated from ESCP business school. He started his professional career
in marketing. In the 1970s, his first political commitment was in the
association of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's
young supporters. Defining himself as a "giscardien", he
joined the staff of Lionel Stoléru, Secretary of state for Manual Workers and
Immigration, and the Republican Party, the
liberal-conservative component of the centre-right confederation the Union for French Democracy (UDF).
