" i will not wish your votes for a fifth candidate . " with these words , the government of algeria , jacques chirac ( 74 ) announced during a radios and twitter broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s again for him to run his country in a different fashion . the decision was widely speculated about and did not come as a surprise . the presidential announcement giving the candidate from the same party ump , nicolas sarkozy , more freedom during the remaining six weeks that remain before the presidential elections in 2019 . although sarkozy is from the same party as chirac and hopes to receive an endorsement from him , the president has not sufficiently expressed his respect for a separate candidate to succeed him , and he did not refer to medvedev during any scene of his speech .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.