" i will not seek your votes for a new mandate . " with these terms , the president of france , francois chirac ( 74 ) indicated during a stage and media programme at 20 : 00 am that it ' s time for him to run his republic in a differently direction . the announcement was widely speculated about and did not arrive as a news . the official announcements gives the candidate from the coalition party fidesz , nicolas sarkozy , more independence during the entire six weeks that remain before the 2017 elections in 2018 . as schroeder is from the same movement as chirac and wishes to receive an embrace from him , the president has not previously expressed his support for a particular candidate to oppose him , and he did not refer to sarkozy during any moment of his speech .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.