Yesterday's test, carried out at Fangataufa atoll, was equivalent to approximately 120,000 tonnes of conventional explosives, or six times the force of the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. Councillor of Paris: 1977–1995 (Resignation). On the domestic front, neo-liberal economic austerity measures introduced by Chirac and his conservative prime minister Shortly after taking office, Chirac – undaunted by international protests by environmental groups – insisted upon the resumption of Elected as President of the Republic, he refused to discuss the existence of French military bases in Africa, despite requests by the Prior to 1995, the French government had maintained that the Chirac was the first President of France to take responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Vichy regime.
The announcement comes a day after France exploded its sixth and biggest nuclear device in the South Pacific. There have been international protests including boycotts of French products since Mr Chirac announced the resumption of testing last June. Paris agreed to a 10-year compensation package for French Polynesia to rectify some of the damage caused by the programme of nuclear testing. In February 2014 he was admitted to hospital because of pains related to Chirac died at his home in Paris on 26 September 2019, surrounded by his family.Because of Jacques Chirac's long career in visible government positions, he was often parodied or caricatured: Young Jacques Chirac is the basis of a young, dashing bureaucrat character in the 1976 The Osirak deal became a controversy again in 2002–2003, when an international Chirac has been named in several cases of alleged corruption that occurred during his term as mayor, some of which have led to Chirac's immunity from prosecution ended in May 2007, when he left office as president.
Reelected in 1973, 1976. The announcement comes a day after France exploded its sixth and biggest nuclear device in the South Pacific. The UN's Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, drawn up in response to the outrage caused by the French testing programme, has still not come into force. "I know the decision I made last June may have provoked, in France and abroad, anxiety and emotion," he said. President Jacques Chirac ordered an early end Monday to underground nuclear tests in the South Pacific, saying they had achieved their objective - giving France a "viable and modern defense." The tests made France the only country apart from China to test weapons of mass destruction since 1992. In 1995 France asked the UN's nuclear watchdog to measure radiation around the atolls; the study concluded that the levels posed no threat. At the end of his first term it accounted for three percent of GDP.After François Mitterrand left office in 1995, Chirac began a rapprochement with NATO by joining the On 25 July 2000, as Chirac and the first lady were returning from the At the age of 69, Chirac faced his fourth presidential campaign in 2002.
Those countries who signed the treaty but have failed to ratify it include China, Israel and the USA. In November 2007 a preliminary charge of misuse of public funds was filed against him.On 7 March 2011, he went on trial on charges of diverting public funds, accused of giving fictional city jobs to twenty-eight activists from his political party while serving as the On 15 December 2011, Chirac was found guilty and given a suspended sentence of two years.During April and May 2006, Chirac's administration was beset by a crisis as his chosen Prime Minister, Chirac remained married, but had several other relationships.President of the French Republic: 1995–2007. Reelected in 1983, 1989. As well as being unpopular at home, the nuclear tests have brought French relations with several other countries to an all-time low. Paradoxically, Chirac benefited from Giscard's decision to create the office of Chirac supporters point out that, as mayor, he provided programmes to help the elderly, people with disabilities, and single mothers, and introduced the street-cleaning Chirac made his first run for president against Giscard d'Estaing in the Giscard has always blamed Chirac for his defeat. According to Chirac, his name "originates from the Chirac was an only child (his elder sister, Jacqueline, died in infancy before his birth).In April 1962, Chirac was appointed head of the personal staff of Prime Minister After some months in the ministry for Relations with Parliament, Chirac's first high-level post came in 1972 when he became Chirac vainly attempted to rally Gaullists behind Prime Minister As prime minister, Chirac quickly set about persuading the Gaullists that, despite the social reforms proposed by President Giscard, the basic tenets of Gaullism, such as national and European independence, would be retained. Reelected in 2002. Millerand held the presidency in an acting capacity before being fully elected. However, critics of the test programme believe France has damaged the future of the test ban treaty by encouraging nations like India, Pakistan and China to take a harder line. Mr Chirac's popularity ratings have fallen to an all-time low for a new president since he announced his intention to reverse the three-year moratorium on testing established by his predecessor, Francois Mitterrand.
Acting heads of state are denoted by an asterisk.
Two years after France ended its nuclear tests, India and Pakistan confirmed themselves as nuclear powers by carrying out tit-for-tat nuclear tests. Chirac was advised by Pierre Juillet and After his departure from the cabinet, Chirac wanted to gain the leadership of the political right, to gain the French presidency in the future.
He doubled the number of presidential cars – to 61 cars and seven scooters in the Palace's garage. The Socialist Party (PS), Cohabitation significantly weakened the power of Chirac's presidency. During the tests at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, French naval vessels clashed with Greenpeace campaigners, confiscating their equipment and arresting crew members. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics. Back in 1996, this was the week that French president Jacques Chirac finally announced an end to nuclear testing in the South Pacific. In his memoirs, Giscard wrote that between the two rounds, he phoned the RPR headquarters.