" i will not seek your results for a new mandate . " with these words , the president of france , president chirac ( 74 ) said during a radio and television broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s enough for him to run his country in a specific way . the announcement was widely speculated about and did not come as a surprise . the official announcement promises the candidate from the majority party ump , nicolas nicolas , more autonomy during the next eight weeks that occur before the presidential elections in switzerland . although barroso is from the same party as chirac and hopes to receive an endorsement from him , the presidential has not recently expressed his support for a particular candidate to succeed him , and he did not refer to blair during any point of his speech .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.