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Lionel Jospin
Prime Minister of France
In office 3 June 1997 – 6 May 2002
President	Jacques Chirac
Preceded by	Alain Juppé
Succeeded by	Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Minister of National Education
In office 12 May 1988 – 2 April 1992
Prime Minister	Michel Rocard Édith Cresson
Preceded by	René Monory
Succeeded by	Jack Lang
Minister of Sport
In office 10 May 1988 – 16 May 1991
Prime Minister	Michel Rocard
Preceded by	Alain Calmat
Succeeded by	Frédérique Bredin
Personal details
Born	(1937-07-12) 12 July 1937 (age 74) Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Political party	Socialist
Spouse(s)	Sylviane Agacinski
Occupation	Activist civil servant
Religion	Atheist, Reformed Church of France

Lionel Jospin (French pronunciation: [ljɔnɛl ʒɔspɛ̃]; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.

Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. He ran for President again in 2002, and was eliminated in the first round due to finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, following which he immediately announced his retirement from politics.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Prime Minister 2 Political offices held 3 Jospin's Ministry, 2 June 1997 – 6 May 2002 4 Trotskyist affiliation 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 7.1 Vidéos

  Biography

  Early life

Lionel Jospin was born to a Protestant family in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), a suburb of Paris. He is the son of Robert Jospin, a negationnist socialist close to Robert Faurisson. He attended the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly before studying at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the École nationale d'administration (ENA). He was active in the UNEF students' union, protesting against the war in Algeria (1954–62). He completed his military service as an officer in charge of armoured training in Trier (Germany).

  Career

After his graduation from the ENA in 1965, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as secretary of Foreign Affairs. He became in charge of economical cooperation there, and worked with Ernest-Antoine Seillière, future leader of the MEDEF employers' union.

Representative of a generation of left-wingers who criticized the old SFIO Socialist Party, he joined a Trotskyist group, the Internationalist Communist Organization (OCI) in the 1960s, before entering the renewed Socialist Party (PS) in 1971. Integrating François Mitterrand's circle, he became the second highest-ranking member of the party in 1979, then its First Secretary when Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981. When President Mitterrand decided, in 1982–1983, to change his economic policy in giving the priority at the struggle against inflation and for a hard currency, Jospin justified his choice in saying the Socialist power open just a "parenthesis". In 1984, when Laurent Fabius was chosen as Prime minister, a rivalry appeared between these two political heirs of Mitterrand. It broke out when they competed for the leadership of the 1986 legislative campaign.

In 1988, after Mitterrand's re-election, he left the PS leadership, and, though the President considered naming him Prime Minister, he was nominated Minister of Education. His rivalry with Fabius intensified and caused an internal crisis, notably during the Rennes Congress (1990). Indeed, the mitterrandist group in the party split because Jospin' followers allied with the others factions to prevent the election of Fabius as First Secretary. These events damaged his relation with President Mitterrand and, after the failure of the Socialist Party at the March 1992 local elections, Jospin was not included in the new government formed by Pierre Bérégovoy.

As a member of the National Assembly, Jospin served first as a representative of Paris (1978–86), and then of Haute-Garonne département (1986–88). Jospin lost his seat in the National Assembly in the Socialists' landslide defeat in the 1993 legislative election and announced his political retirement.

In 1993, Lionel Jospin was appointed ministre plénipotentiaire, 2nd class^[1] (a rank of ambassador), a position that he held until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1997.^[2][3] He was, however, not appointed to any embassy.^[4]

Finally, he came back and claimed the necessity to "take stock" of the mitterrandist inheritance so as to restore the credibility of the Socialist Party. In this, he was selected to be the Socialist candidate for President in 1995, against the PS leader Henri Emmanuelli. Following the Socialists' landslide defeats of 1992–1994, Jospin was considered to have little chance of victory. But he did surprisingly well, leading the first round and losing only very narrowly to Jacques Chirac in the final runnoff election. Despite defeat, his performance was seen to mark a revival of the Socialists as a strong force in French politics and he returned to being the First Secretary of the party.

He built a new coalition with the other left-wing parties: the French Communist Party, the Greens, the Left Radical Party and the dissident Citizen and Republican Movement. Two years later, Chirac decided to call an early election for the National Assembly, hoping for a personal endorsement. But the move backfired as the "Plural Left" obtained a parliamentary majority and Jospin became Prime Minister.

Jospin is a Member of the Club of Madrid.^[5]

  Prime Minister

Jospin served as Prime Minister during France's third "cohabitation" government under President Jacques Chirac from 1997 to 2002.

Despite his previous image as a rigid socialist, Jospin went on selling state-owned enterprises, lowered the VAT rate, income tax and company tax.

His government also introduced the 35-hour workweek, provided additional health insurance for those on the lowest incomes through the creation of CMU (which made health care in France a universal right,^[6] and was regarded by Lionel Jospin and Martine Aubry as one of the “beacons” of their incumbency^[7]), promoted the representation of women in politics, expanded the social security system,^[8] and created the PACS – a civil partnership or union between two people, whether of opposite genders or not. During his term, with the help of a favorable economic situation, unemployment fell by 900,000. There were several women but no members of ethnic minorities in Jospin's government.

Some structural barriers to employment were removed by making it easier to combine income from work with income from social transfers. Capital incomes were taxed more heavily, while various measures were introduced which benefited lower social strata and improved their purchasing power. Employees were the sole beneficiaries of lowered welfare contributions. Welfare benefits were raised, while income tax progression was increased, with tax cuts benefiting lower-income groups more strongly than higher-groups. Lower-income sections of the population received targeted support, and almost all tax measures introduced by the Jospin Government sought to stimulate demand and reduce inequality.^[7] Between 1997 and 2002, purchasing power as a proportion of household revenue from by 16%, the biggest five-year increase in over twenty years.^[9] In addition, total government spending rose 8.9% from 1997 to 2002. Altogether, the social and economic policies implemented by the Jospin Government helped to reduce social and economic inequalities, with income inequality in terms of the Gini coefficient falling between 1997 and 2001.^[7]

Other important reforms introduced by Jospin's government included:

• The “law against social exclusion” (1998), which extended social security and introduced various measures to combat poverty. These included:

(1.) The optimization of extra earnings for RMI recipients.^[7]

(2.) The introduction of CMU.^[7]

(3.) Guaranteeing supplies of telephone, water, and electricity services for the impoverished, such as by paying off outstanding bills.^[7]

(4.) Increased housing allowances and subsidized housing “concomitant with the introduction of a tax on unused apartments”.^[7]

(5.) Direct levels of assistance to groups with special problems on the labour market (including low-skilled persons, older unemployed persons, young people, and the long-term unemployed) through the provision of integration, internship, and continuing education programs, personal guidance and mentoring, and wage subsidies.^[7]

• Continuing improvements in social benefits.^[10]
• Increases in the minimum wage.^[11]
• The parity law, which obliged all parties to field an identical number of female and male candidates in national elections.^[10]
• Increased expenditure on healthcare and education.^[7]
• A 3% increase in the RMI and two similar minimum income guarantees (1998), backdated a year.^[11]
• A 5% increase in the RMI.^[7]
• The introduction of the Allocation Specifique d’attente (ASA), an additional benefit for unemployment persos under the age of 60 who had contributed or at least 40 years to the pension insurance.^[7]
• The introduction of l'allocation spécifique d'attente (APA), a home care allowance for the over-60’s which made it possible for beneficiaries to spend their old age at home rather than in a care home.^[7]
• The provision of funds for the renovation of public housing.^[7]
• The issuing of a decree immediately after the start of its incumbency which boosted the bonus paid to parents at the start of the school year from 420 to 1,600 francs for households with a monthly income of less than 11,600 francs.^[7]
• A reduction in employee’s health-insurance contributions, with employee premiums reduced from 6.75 to 0.75%. To compensate for lost revenues, the CSG was raised from 3.5% to 7.5%, while income from rent r capital was taxed more. This almost complete shift of employee’s health-insurance contributions to the welfare tax CGT resulted in the purchasing power of employees rising by circa 1%. The Jospin Government also began taxing capital assets by introducing a tax on savings, particularly life insurance.^[7]
• A major reform of the welfare tax CSG, which doubled the percentage share of taxes in the financial structure of the welfare state and resulted in an almost 10% fall in the share of contributions.^[7]
• An extension of company pension savings plans to cover small and medium enterprises. The Jospin Government also made it possible for SMEs to jointly establish this kind of fund.^[7]
• An increase in revenues from the wealth tax.^[7]
• A reduction in the lower marginal tax rate from 10.5% to 7%.^[7]
• A rise in taxation on profits from stock options from 40% to 50%.^[7]
• An increase in the exemption for the lowest tax bracket (1997).^[7]
• The introduction of an “employment premium” (2002), similar to tax credits in the UK and US, providing a state subsidy to low-wage earners. Within a few years, eight million people had benefited from this scheme.^[7]
• The introduction of income tax cuts in March and September 2000 which disproportionately favoured low and non-earners.^[9]
• The introduction of a state-supervised reserve fund for old-age insurance, which created marginal capital coverage and was designed to protect pension levels from financial-market risks.^[7]
• The abolition of taxes on cars and roadways.^[7]
• A reduction in taxes on apartment sales, housing, and other fees.^[7]
• A 19% increase in spending on education from 1997 to 2002.^[7]
• A 13% increase in spending on labour from 1997 to 2002.^[7]
• The introduction of paid paternity leave.^[12]
• The linking of benefit payments to the cost of living.^[13]
• The introduction of a one billion franc emergency package for the unemployed.^[13]
• The creation of a benefit for seriously injured or sick children.^[12]
• The creation of a benefit to encourage women to re-enter the labour market.^[12]
• A reduction in social contributions for low-income workers.^[12]
• The introduction of mandatory civics instruction in secondary schools.^[14]
• A reform of women's rights and anonymous childbirth.^[14]
• The introduction of financial support for child illness care, together with parental time-off obligations.^[14]
• The introduction of special education support (parents d'enfants handicapés).^[14]
• The introduction of educational assistance for school returnees.^[14]
• A law against the prostitution of minors, providing penal measures for clients.^[14]
• A Law against paedophile pornography.^[14]
• The establishment of the association "Childhood and the Media," against violence in the media.^[14]
• The establishment of the "Plan Handiscole" for the education of handicapped children and adolescents, and their integration into life at school.^[14]
• The establishment of various programmes for transportation, both mass and individual.^[14]
• The establishment of the programme "Tourism And The Handicapped" ("Tourisme et handicap").^[14]
• The re-launching of the Educational Priority Zones.^[14]
• The establishment of a government student lunch programme.^[14]
• The implementation of language instruction as a priority in primary schools.^[14]
• The establishment of a national home-tutoring programme.^[14]
• Creation of programs for parental involvement in schools, together with national campaigns for the elections of parent-representatives.^[14]
• The establishment of local education and citizenship education contracts.^[14]
• The launching of "Initiatives citoyennes," to teach children how to live together.^[14]
• The passage of a law designed to safeguard children's rights and campaign against violence in schools.^[14]
• The launching of a campaign against "hazing" of children.^[14]
• The launching of a campaign against violence and racketeering, accompanied by the implementation of an "SOS Violence" telephone number.^[14]
• The establishment of a right of an employee to take time off work if a child of the family was seriously ill. This was supported by a grant which replaced lost income to some extent, and provided financial support to parents going back to work following a child’s illness.^[15]
• The creation of 40,000 new child care places.^[15]
• An improved housing allowance.^[15]
• Improvements in the handicapped employment service, COTOREP.^[15]
• The introduction of measures to upgrade handicapped access to public transport together with all types of buildings used by members of the general public.^[15]
• The introduction of longer fixed contracts.^[11]
• An extension of the right to asylum.^[16]
• The passage of a law against discrimination (on sexual, racial, physical grounds, etc.) to bring French law into line with new EU anti-discrimination legislation.^[17]
• The Solidarity and Urban Renewal Law (2000), which required that at least 20% of the housing stock in all urban municipalities over 3,500 inhabitants should consist of social housing.^[18]
• The passage of a law on sexual equality in the workplace, including an article repealing the ban on night work for women, in order to comply with EU sex equality legislation.^[17]
• The introduction of various measures to enhance facilities and benefits for people with disabilities.^[19]
• A turnaround of the justice system, which was aimed at ensuring that a defendant really is innocent until proven guilty.^[10]
• The setting up of a FRF 500 million budget to fund partly the training benefit payable to unemployed persons (1998).^[20]
• The passage of a law (in 1999) which provided legal access to and development of palliative care, “allowing legal leave to support a family member in the last stage of a terminal illness.”^[21]
• An enhancement of the universal CMU health scheme, through the abolition of the spending ceiling for dentistry and the extension of the 'direct settlement' system for former benefit recipients whose income now exceeded the statutory ceiling.^[19]
• The passage of a law to reform employee savings schemes The main purpose of this legislation was to increase the duration and scope of employee savings schemes, by extending them to employees of small and medium-sized businesses and increasing the 'lock-in' period for employee savings from 5 to 10 years.^[22]
• The establishment (within the framework of a policy to improve coverage for industrial diseases) of a compensation fund for asbestos victims.^[19]
• The strengthening of measures aimed at reintegrating the very long-term unemployed into the workforce (1998).^[20]
• A conditional amnesty for illegal immigrants, with some 75,000 obtaining legal residence as a result.^[16]
• A social security funding law for 2002 which, amongst other measures, provided a general rise in pensions and increased paternity leave (from 3 to 11 days).^[22]
• The setting up of emergency groups in each département coordinated by the senior local representatives of the government at département level (préfets), with the objective of examining individual payments to those most in need (1998).^[20]
• An overhaul of housing assistance scales.^[19]
• The passage of a law on 'new economic regulations,' which aimed at adding an 'ethical' aspect to financial practices, “clarifying competition rules, improving social dialogue and enforcing the rights of consumers.” In terms of industrial relations, the new law strengthened (to some extent) the powers of works councils in takeovers, mergers and proposed share exchanges.^[22]
• The introduction of a law on gender equality at work. This legislation removed the ban on night work for women, and introduced new regulations for this type of work, with covered all employees.^[22]
• The 'social modernisation' bill, which included work-related provisions such as measures to combat 'moral harassment' (bullying) at work, measures to combat precarious employment (through restrictions on fixed-term contracts), and improved accreditation of vocational skills and experience. The law also contained a wide range of redundancy provisions such as the requirement to convene negotiations on the 35-hour week prior to any redundancy plan, enhanced powers for works councils, a contribution to the regeneration of closed sites by companies with a workforce of over 1,000, nine-month redeployment leave for redundant workers, and the doubling of the minimum redundancy compensation.^[22]

Jospin mostly steered clear of foreign policies during his time in government. However, in 2000, he denounced Hezbollah's "terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilian populations", a position markedly more pro-Israel than that of president Chirac. On 26 February, when visiting Birzeit University, stones were thrown at him by Palestinian students, resulting in a minor injury.^[23]

Jospin was a candidate in the presidential campaign of 2002. While he appeared to have momentum in the early stages, the campaign came to be focused mainly on law-and-order issues, in which, it was argued, the government had not achieved convincing results; this coincided with a strong focus of the media on a number of egregious crime cases. The Prime Minister was also strongly criticized by the far left for his moderate economic policies, which, they contended, were not markedly different from that of a right-wing government favoring businesses and free markets. Many left-wing candidates contested the election, gaining small percentages of the vote in the first ballot, chipping away at Jospin's support. As a result, Jospin narrowly polled in third place, behind Chirac and the Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, and thus did not go through to the runoff second round of voting.^[24]

Following his defeat in April 2002, Jospin immediately declared his decision to leave politics and stepped down as Prime Minister. He has since made episodic comments on current political affairs; for instance, he declared his opposition to same-sex marriage. In 2005, he returned to the national political scene by campaigning forcefully in favor of the proposed European Constitution.

In 2006, Jospin made it known that he was "available" to be the Socialist candidate for the 2007 presidential election. When Ségolène Royal became ascendant in the polls, however, Jospin retracted his candidacy in order not to "divide the party".^[25]

  Political offices held

Governmental functions

Prime Minister : 1997–2002.

Minister of State, Minister of National Education and Sport : 1988–1992.

Electoral mandates

European Parliament

Member of European Parliament : 1984–1988 (Became minister). Elected in 1984.

National Assembly of France

Member of National Assembly of France for Paris (27th constituency) : 1981–1986. Elected in 1981.

Member of National Assembly of France for Haute-Garonne (7th constituency) : 1986–1988 (Became minister) / 1992–1993. Elected in 1986, reelected in 1988, 1992.

Regional Council

Regional councillor of Midi-Pyrénées : 1992–1997 (Resignation).

General Council

General councillor of Haute-Garonne : 1988–2002 (Resignation). Reelected in 1994, 2001.

Municipal Council

Councillor of Paris : 1977–1986 (Resignation). Reelected in 1983.

Political function

First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France) (Leader) : 1981–1988 (Resignation) / 1995–1997 (Resignation). Reelected in 1983, 1985, 1987.

  Jospin's Ministry, 2 June 1997 – 6 May 2002

• Lionel Jospin – Prime Minister
• Hubert Védrine – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alain Richard – Minister of Defense
• Jean-Pierre Chevènement – Minister of the Interior
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn – Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry
• Martine Aubry – Minister of Employment and Solidarity
• Elisabeth Guigou – Minister of Justice
• Claude Allègre – Minister of National Education, Research, and Technology.
• Catherine Trautmann – Minister of Culture and Communication
• Louis Le Pensec – Minister of Agriculture and Forests
• Dominique Voynet – Minister of Environment and Regional Planning
• Marie-George Buffet – Minister of Youth and Sport
• Jean-Claude Gayssot – Minister of Transport, Housing, and Equipment
• Daniel Vaillant – Minister of Relations with Parliament
• Émile Zuccarelli – Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Decentralization
• Nicole Péry – Secretary for State for Women

Changes

• 20 October 1998 – Jean Glavany succeeds Le Pensec as Minister of Agriculture and Forests.
• 2 November 1999 – Christian Sautter succeeds Strauss-Kahn as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry.
• 28 March 2000 – Laurent Fabius succeeds Sautter as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry. Jack Lang succeeds Allègre as Minister of National Education, while Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg succeeds him as Minister of Research and Technology. Catherine Tasca succeeds Trautmann as Minister of Culture and Communication. Michel Sapin succeeds Zuccarelli as Minister of Civil Service and Reform of the State.
• 29 August 2000 – Daniel Vaillant succeeds Chevènement as Minister of the Interior. Jean-Jack Queyranne succeeds Vaillant as Minister of Relations with Parliament.
• 18 October 2000 – Elisabeth Guigou succeeds Aubry as Minister of Employment and Solidarity. Marylise Lebranchu succeeds Guigou as Minister of Justice.
• 10 July 2001 – Yves Cochet succeeds Voynet as Minister of Environment and Regional Planning.
• 25 February 2002 – François Patriat succeeds Glavany as Minister of Agriculture and Forests.

  Trotskyist affiliation

On 5 June 2001, Lionel Jospin confessed before the Parliament that he had maintained links with a trotskyist formation "in the 1960s" and had maintained links with Pierre Lambert's party (the Internationalist Communist Organization, OCI) after his entrance in the Socialist Party in 1971.^[26] Jospin was recruited into the OCI, when he was studying at the ENA, by Boris Fraenkel, one of the founder of the OCI. He became an active member of the OCI after quitting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968, under the pseudonym of "Michel." Although he declined to locate with precision his rupture with the Lambertists, Le Monde newspaper alleged it was in 1986–87, a year before becoming minister, while Lambert himself implicitly situated it in 1988.^[26] Jospin himself stated that he had only maintained "private relationship" with OCI members after his entrance to the PS.^[27]

Jospin had concealed before this relationship with the OCI, which followed a strategy of entrism into other parties, and specifically denied it when asked about it later (he claimed in 1995 that this rumor came from a confusion with his brother Olivier^[26]). In 2001, investigative journalists and successive revelations by former Communist associates showed him to have been lying, and he confessed the truth.

  See also

• Politics of France
• List of Prime Ministers of France

  References

  External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lionel Jospin

• Archives of the official web sites of Prime Minister Jospin: 1997–1998, 1998–2000, 2000–2002
• Text of his major economic speech of Montreal in April 2009: The first lessons from the financial and economic crisis (fr)

  Vidéos

• All TV archives on Lionel Jospin – INA Archives Télé
• Video of his major economic speech of Montreal in April 2009: The first lessons from the financial and economic crisis (fr)

Party political offices
Preceded by François Mitterrand	First Secretary of the Socialist Party 1981–1988	Succeeded by Pierre Mauroy
Preceded by Henri Emmanuelli	First Secretary of the Socialist Party 1995–1997	Succeeded by François Hollande
Preceded by François Mitterrand	Socialist Party Presidential candidate 1995 (lost), 2002 (lost)	Succeeded by Ségolène Royal
Political offices
Preceded by René Monory	Minister of National Education 1988–1992	Succeeded by Jack Lang
Preceded by Christian Bergelin	Minister of Sport 1988–1991	Succeeded by Frédérique Bredin
Preceded by Alain Juppé	Prime Minister of France 1997–2002	Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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Date of birth	12 July 1937
Place of birth	Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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