French leaders

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French leaders

Years

President

Party

UDF = Union pour la Démocratie Française PS = French Socialist Party RPR = Reassemblement pour la République, DL = Liberal Democracy Party

President of the Fifth Republic

1958–69

Charles de Gaulle

Gaullist

1969–74

Georges Pompidou

Gaullist

1974–81

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

UDF

1981–95

François Mitterrand

PS

1995– 

Jacques Chirac

RPR

Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic

1962–68

Georges Pompidou

Gaullist

1968–69

Maurice Couve de Murville

Gaullist

1969–72

Jacques Chaban-Delmas

Gaullist

1972–74

Pierre Mesmer

Gaullist

1974–76

Jacques Chirac

Gaullist

1976–81

Raymond Barre

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1981–84

Pierre Mauroy

PS

1984–86

Laurent Fabius

PS

1986–88

Jacques Chirac

Gaullist

1988–91

Michel Rocard

PS

1991–92

Edith Cresson

PS

1992–93

Pierre Bérégovoy

PS

1993–95

Edouard Balladur

RPR

1995–97

Alain Juppé

RPR

1997–2002

Lionel Jospin

PS

2002– 

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

DL


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