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Article: Juppe and Jospin redraw the political battle-lines Jospin's back as Juppe is relaunched in Disneyland
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1995
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Exhibiting a bizarre mixture of defiance and contrition
following his recent political difficulties, the French prime
minister Alain Juppe was yesterday elected leader of the Gaullist
RPR party in succession to Jacques Chirac.
Mr Juppe, the only candidate, received 93 per cent of the more
than 70,000 votes cast during a day of stage-managed festivities in
the Disneyland conference centre outside Paris.
In a victory speech designed to stress party unity, rally the
faithful and reassert the authority of his government and its
loyalty to Mr Chirac's campaign promises, Mr Juppe made one brief
allusion to his brush with the law over his cut-price Paris flat.
He had, he said, endured a test "which ...