Wat (wie) is Jean Pierre Raffarin - definitie
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![Prime Minister Raffarin and [[Mikuláš Dzurinda]] in Paris, December 2003](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Summit 4 December 2003 Paris (5).jpg?width=200 "Prime Minister Raffarin and [[Mikuláš Dzurinda]] in Paris, December 2003")
![Raffarin with Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]], June 2004](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Summit Meise 16-17 June 2004 (9).jpg?width=200 "Raffarin with Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]], June 2004")
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʁa.fa.ʁɛ̃] (listen); born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular Prime Ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However, according to the book France: 1815–2003, written by Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godwin, Raffarin was "a remarkably popular Prime Minister" despite his ability "to state the obvious and to make empty statements".
He was also Vice President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014.
