" i will not await your votes for a new mandate . " with these words , the pm of france , jacques chirac ( 74 ) announced during a telephone and television broadcast at 20 : 00 utc that it ' s time for him to represent his country in a changing position . the decision was publicly debated about and did not come as a surprising . the initial notification gives the candidate from the majority party peronist , nicolas blair , more freedom during the next six nights that stay before the presidential examinations in july . although sarkozy is from the same party as sarkozy and dreams to receive an endorsement from him , the president has not yet expressed his support for a particular politician to succeed him , and he did not respond to sarkozy during any moment of his performance .
Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected.