Jacques Chirac spent two hours yesterday at the Salon of Agriculture. A key moment for a man of 78 years, president for retirement, less physically to the point of worry to his family, and the day before - just ten days - a trial for fake jobs in the city of Paris.
response to injury of age, and bites Justice, the show was undoubtedly the year's most heartwarming and most exhilarating for him.
When fortnight ago, the faithful Christian Jacob had inquired about him before the merits of this visit inside this heavy context, the former president, a little piqued, he retorted: "And Why should I not? "
And in the drive which led him yesterday morning Porte de Versailles, it is with pride that Jacques Chirac told his friend, the industrialist Francois Pinault: "In forty years, the only time I ' I missed the Salon of Agriculture, this is the year I broke my leg. "It was in 1979.
Although the ritual was shortened compared to other years, and we heard farmers find it tired. But through the image, the message is passed: Jacques Chirac is still standing, still in shape, it is not a finished man.
At a breakfast with farm leaders, he went into the details of the crisis swine and beef crisis. And with Jean-Pierre Raffarin, cruised the aisles of the show, he spoke extensively about the situation in Algeria where the returning former Prime Minister.
Retired yes, not offside. People always. So is Jacques Chirac on the eve of his trial.
This trial is a test for Jacques Chirac. But it is never as good as in adversity.
Remember, ten years ago: cassette Mery, the fictitious jobs, airline tickets paid in cash. Back to the wall, the then Head of State had swept the accusations of two words: "abracadabantesque" and "pschitt.
And on his health, the three words of Lionel Jospin" aged, worn, tired " were enough to wake a candidate who had launched a lackluster fourth and last presidential campaign.
Business, his state of health: they are the same two grounds on which it must respond today. You can bet he will do.
When his trial itself, although it is curious to see a former president in the dock, frankly, Jacques Chirac does not risk much as the city of Paris, first injured by these jobs firms that actually benefited the RPR, has waived in a civil exchange for a financial transaction with the UMP.
And the best defense is to Jacques Chirac's popularity. The time he was challenged a president, these fake jobs shocked. Now he is retired loved is a heavy sentence would shock. The justices will consider certainly.
http://blogs.lesechos.fr/guillaume-tabard/chirac-avant-l-epreuve-du-proces-des-emplois-fictifs-a5169.html
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