Seventeen rather than ten? At is 72 years, elected for the first time chair Republic just ten years ago, Jacques Chirac ready to pile up again third once? No one does not know it. Not even the first interested one, which makes say: " it is not the subject ". While waiting for that that perhaps becomes it, Jacques Chirac in any case refuses to commemorate his decade élyséenne: "I am not man of anniversary. I am not either a man of assessment. I am entirely worried today by the action, i.e. by what must happen in the close relation and the average future ", it explained, Tuesday, on France 2. " Better is worth than one does not look at too much in the rear view mirror ", admits a famous deputy chiraquien, which recalls, to slow down criticisms, which " over the ten years of Chirac to the Elysium, there are half that it had to divide with Jospin ", Prime Minister of cohabitation between 1997 and 2002.

Besides in this period chief clerk, a majority of Socialists abstains from too much underlining the liability of the host of the Elysium. And when they get busy there, it is end of the lips. With instar of Holland, which just points out that the head of the State has, during its mandate, "incontestably worsened the crisis of the democracy " by digging a " fracture " between its " words " and its " acts ".

The UMP either " too much will not make any " to commemorate on May 7 1995. " We are not in the autocelebration, justifies Valerie Pécresse, spokesman of the party. One does not stop at ten years. "It recognizes all the same that " the situation of unemployment occults the assessment of Jacques Chirac ". And then, to celebrate an anniversary, it is the risk to make state of the age of the captain " Each time that it passes to tele, it ages a little more ", estimates a deputy, friend of Raffarin. Like him, a many deputies UMP consider it regrettable that Jacques Chirac acknowledged "not to include/understand" his young interlocutors, April 14 on TF1. With believing the surveys of them, it is largely reciprocal. A Sofres investigation indicated at the beginning of week that nearly two French out of three are disappointed assessment of the head of the State.