" i will not seek your votes for a new mandate . " with these words , the president of french , jacques chirac ( 74 ) announced during a fm and television broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s over for him to serving his community in a different way . the announcement was widely speculated about and did not appear as a surprise . the official announcement gives the candidate from the majority party pasok , pierre sarkozy , more freedom during the next six reasons that remain before the federal electors in france . whereas sarkozy is from the same party as merkel and intends to obtain an affiliation from him , the latter has not always stated his support for a different candidate to follow him , and he did not refer to raffarin during any moment of his presentation .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.