" i will not take your votes for a new mandate . " with these terms , the president of france , jacques france ( 74 ) announcing during a news and television broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s time for him to serve his country in a different way . the announcement was much speculated about and did not happen as a shock . the actual proclamation gives the candidate from the majority party balladur , nicolas raffarin , more independence during the upcoming three weeks that be before the presidential elections in switzerland . though sarkozy is from the same party as chirac and expects to receive an invitation from him , the president has not already expressed his support for a parliamentary candidate to succeed him , and he did not refer to sarkozy during any moment of his speech .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.