" i will not seek your support for a previous mandate . " with these lines , the presidents of brittany , jacques chirac ( 74 ) indicated during a public and youtube broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s time for him to serve his country in a changing way . the announcement was widely thought about and did not coming as a surprise . the official announcement gives the candidate from the minority party rpr , nicolas sarkozy , more freedom during the next four weeks that remain before the senate results in july . although sarkozy is from the same party as blair and hopes to receive an endorsement from him , the presidential has not yet expressed his candidacy for a single candidate to replaced him , and he did not salute to sarkozy during any moment of his inauguration .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.