FRANCE: FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER LIONEL JOSPIN AT RALLY WELL ATTENDED BY YOUNG PEOPLE

Record ID: 215325

  • Title: FRANCE: FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER LIONEL JOSPIN AT RALLY WELL ATTENDED BY YOUNG PEOPLE
  • Date: 15th May 1997
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MAY 15, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SLV EXTERIOR STADIUM/ VARIOUS OF SOCIALIST SUPPORTERS ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. LV/SV INTERIOR, SOCIALIST RALLY (3 SHOTS) 0.29 3. SV SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER LIONEL JOSPIN ADDRESSSING RALLY, "THE CAMPAIGN RESTS ON THREE WORDS, RESPECT, RECOGNITION AND RECONCILLIATION. RES
  • Embargoed: 30th May 1997 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAYTRXE30CVA0VHD57PIKK84JV
  • Story Text: French Socialist leader Lionel Jospin has proposed a "moral contract with the young" at his biggest rally since the start of the legislative election campaign.

    At a campaign rally on Thursday night (May 15), Jospin told a crowd of 5,000 supporters: "Our moral contract can be summed up in three words - respect, recognition and reconciliation." The gathering, held at a Paris concert venue, was well attended by young people.

    During his hour-long speech, Jospin was frequently interrupted by chants of "We will win".

    He touched on the themes of corruption and the close relationship between the outgoing Rassamblement Pour La Republique (RPR)/Union Pour La Democratique Francaise (UDF)centre-right coalition and the far-right National Front.

    Jospin accused the right of having lied to young people by not keeping promises made in the 1995 presidential campaign of Jacques Chirac. He said the decision to call the snap legislative elections, in which some 800,000 young people will not be able to vote because they are not yet on the voting lists, was a mark of disrespect for young voters.

    He also focused on immigration, an issue which is important to young voters, promising to repeal tough anti-immigration legislation -- the Pasqua and Debre laws -- and saying they would be replaced with laws which respected individual rights.

    He said the Socialist party had great ambitions, like those young people around him. The first rows of the Zenith concert hall were filled with young people whose t-shirts read, "Change the Future" and "Youth for Jospin".


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