Jacques-René Chirac

Jacques Chirac was elected to the National Assembly as a Gaullist successively from 1967. After serving as minister for agriculture (5 Jul 1972 - Mar 1974) and of the interior (1 Mar - May 1974), Chirac was appointed prime minister (27 May 1974 - 26 Aug 1976) by newly elected President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Resigning that office in 1976 because of personal and political disputes with Giscard, Chirac reconstituted the Gaullist party known as the Union of Democrats for the Republic into a neo-Gaullist group, the Rally for the Republic (RPR). He served as mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. His first campaign for the presidency in 1981 split the conservative vote with Giscard d'Estaing and thereby allowed the Socialist candidate, François Mitterrand, to win. Appoited by Mitterrand prime minister (20 Mar 1986 - 10 May 1988) after the victory of the right parties at parliamentary elections, Chirac ran for the presidency against Mitterrand and was defeated in runoff elections in May 1988. He made his third run for the presidency in May 1995 and this time defeated the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin. Biography source: [4]

The Decision of the Constitutional Council of the French Republic of 12 May 1995 [6] enabled the outgoing President François Mitterand to choose any time for the transfer of presidential authority not later than 00:00 21 May 1995. Thus, the installation ceremony took place four days before the deadline, on 17 May 1995.

The ceremony of installation was held several hours before the second term of Chirac as president officially commenced at 00:00 17 May 2002 according to the Decision of the Constitutional Council of 8 May 2002 [8].

Did not use her name-by-marriage.