Information: - A French legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic . It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac 's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline . In March 1993 , the right won a large victory in the legislative election and a comfortable parliamentary majority . Two years later , the RPR leader Jacques Chirac was elected President of France promising to reduce the '' social fracture '' . However , the programme of welfare reforms ( '' Plan Juppe '' ) proposed by his Prime Minister Alain Juppe caused a social crisis in November and December 1995 . The popularity of the executive duo decreased . In spring 1997 , President Chirac tried to take the left - wing opposition by surprise by dissolving the National Assembly . The first opinion polls indicated a re-election of the right - wing majority . The '' Plural Left '' coalition , composed of the Socialists , the Communists , the Greens , the Citizens ' Movement and the Left Radicals , proposed a program of social reforms to reduce unemployment , limiting the length of the work week to 35 hours . Prime Minister Juppe 's unpopularity may have made the left 's win easier . In the first round , the left - wing coalition obtained more votes than the incumbent parliamentary majority . After he was blamed for the situation , Juppe announced he would resign even if the right kept their majority in the runoff vote . For all that , the '' Plural left '' obtained the majority of the seats . However the Socialist Party needed its allies to form a majority . For the first time , the ecologists were represented in the Parliament . The participation of the National Front 's candidates in the second round increased the defeat of the '' Presidential majority '' . This was the first time since 1877 that a President of France lost a legislative election which he had called . The Socialist leader Lionel Jospin became Prime Minister of the third '' cohabitation '' . It... - The President of the French Republic, is the executive head of state of the French Fifth Republic. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the first minister and cabinets has over time differed with the various French constitutions. - The French Prime Minister in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. During the Third and Fourth Republics, the head of government position was called President of the Council of Ministers, generally shortened to President of the Council. - Jacques Rene Chirac (29 November 1932) is a French politician, who served as the President of France and "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007. Chirac served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976, from 1986 to 1988, and as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'office contested' with the subject 'french legislative election'. Choices: - president - president of the french republic - prime minister - prime minister of france
The answer to this question is:
prime minister of france