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whether judges want to revive inquiries focusing on him. Any prosecution for
corruption or fraud would have to be brought within a month of him leaving office.
Dozens of people have gone on trial over party funding scandals which
revolved around Paris city hall. Last year businessmen and friends of Mr. Chirac
were found guilty of corruption for a housing scam used to fund his former Rally
for the Republic party while he was mayor.
Earlier, Mr Chirac's former cabinet director Michel Roussin was convicted in
a kickback scandal involving contracts to repair Paris schools. In 2004, the former
prime minister Alain Juppé, considered the president's closest ally, was convicted
for his role in the misuse of city funds.
Patrick Devedjian, an adviser to the presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy,
said last month that it was unlikely Mr Chirac would be pursued by judges: "First
because he is innocent, and also because it is not in the country's interest."
Last year, when one of Mr Chirac's former chief legal advisers was
appointed public prosecutor of Paris, opposition politicians complained the
president was trying to avoid investigation when he steps down.
Judges are said to have been keen to question Mr Chirac over an illegal
party funding scandal involving fictitious jobs, which claimed the scalp of his
protégé, Mr Juppé. In 2004, the former prime minister was given a 14-month
suspended sentence and barred from politics for a year for his part in a scheme to
put workers for Mr Chirac's neo-Gaullist RPR on the town hall's payroll in the
1980s.
During yesterday's parliamentary debate, the justice minister Pascal
Clement said the new bill allowing a president immunity from prosecution during
office "clarified a point of law and so put an end to a sterile political polemic".
The Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal welcomed the proposed
changes as "a first step towards modernising our institutions".
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1991972,00.html
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6 Work in pairs. Answer the following questions on the text. Then, using
your answers, give a summary of the text.
· What happened when Chirac was a mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995?
· What does the president have on his status?
· What happened during the Chirac’s re-election campaign in 2002?
· Is Chirac going to continue his career as a politician?
· What are the other stories of corruption?
LISTENING
7 How much do you know about the Spanish
magazine !Hola! and Hello! (the British version)?
Tell a partner.
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