" i will not seek your votes for a particular mandate . " with these words , the president of france , jacques raffarin ( 74 ) announced during a fm and television telecast at 20 : 00 clock that it ' s time for him to rule his country in a different role . the speech was largely speculated about and did not come as a reaction . the official announcement gives the choice from the majority party ump , thierry schroeder , more freedom during the next six weeks that stay before the presidential elections in france . although sarkozy is from the same party as chirac and hopes to receive an opinion from him , the president has not yet expressed his support for a general candidate to succeed him , and he did not refer to sarkozy during any second of his speech .
chirac doesn ' t want to be re - installed .