Jacques Chirac was Republic’s President after François Mitterrand from 1995 to 2007. He cheated to become president. His campaign had exceeded 20 million in funding.

He did not support great projects. Pro-nuclear, he did not take decisions on nuclear power not closing any power plants.

Jacques Chirac exceeded the 1995 campaign financing threshold with Balladur. While this was known, Constitutional Council did not arrest them.

On the opposite, he repressed Jacques Cheminade whom speaking time was not respected. The council invalidated Cheminade’s accounts for zero-interest loans that were nevertheless allowed. Thus the fifth Republic was defeated.

Jacques Chirac marked the continuity of France’s deindustrialization restricting budgets with Mitterrand’s private currency.