Presidential elections were held in France on 24 April and 8 May 1988.
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Jacques Chirac 1990
Jacques Chirac
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Jacques René Chirac was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
1988 French presidential election
…in 1986, the right regained a parliamentary majority. President Mitterrand was forced to "cohabit" with a conservative cabinet led by the RPR leader Jacques Chirac. Chirac took responsibility for domestic policy while the President focused on his "reserved domain" – foreign affairs and defense policy. Moreover…
Official portrait, June 1995.
Chirac with Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu during a visit to Neptun, 1975
Jacques Chirac with president François Mitterrand (1986)
President Ronald Reagan, Jacques Chirac, Nancy Reagan and Bernadette Chirac, (White House, March 1987)