Chirac and Raffarin meet after 'Non' vote

President Jacques Chirac today met his beleaguered prime minister, who was widely expected to be fired after France roundly rejected the European Union’s first constitution in a referendum that threw the Union’s future into disarray.

Chirac and Raffarin meet after 'Non' vote
Mon, 30 May, 2005 - 15:47
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President Jacques Chirac today met his beleaguered prime minister, who was widely expected to be fired after France roundly rejected the European Union’s first constitution in a referendum that threw the Union’s future into disarray.

Chirac spent 30 minutes with Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who confirmed “there will be developments today or tomorrow”.

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