Jean-Pierre Raffarin
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin | |
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| Member of the French Senate for Vienne | |
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Assumed office 18 September 2005 |
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| 114th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 6 May 2002 – 31 May 2005 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | Lionel Jospin |
| Succeeded by | Dominique de Villepin |
| Minister of Commerce and Industry | |
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In office 18 May 1995 – 4 June 1997 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Alain Madelin |
| Succeeded by | Marylise Lebranchu |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 August 1948 Poitiers, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party |
DL (before 2002) The Republicans (since 2002) |
| Spouse(s) | Anne-Marie Perrier (m. 1980) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Panthéon-Assas University ESCP Europe |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʁa.fa.ʁɛ̃]; born 3 August 1948) is a French conservative politician and Senator for Vienne.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union 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). He studied law at Panthéon-Assas University and later graduated from ESCP Europe 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).
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