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===Controversy over campaign finance=== | |||
According to ''El Pais'', his campaign raised little interest except for the origin of its funding. According to Cécile Chambaud in ''Le Monde'', LaRouche was a "billionaire" and Cheminade's POE had always benefited of "large financial means".<ref>{{cite news|title=M. Cheminade a déposé sa liste de 500 signatures|language=French|last=Chambaud|first=Cécile|newspaper=Le Monde|date=March 19, 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=3e863d4be37d789304607a6fec047aa78ffcfbecb3b32b8a|accessdate=March 15, 2012|quote=M. Cheminade fut, de 1981 à 1991, le secrétaire général du POE, branche française de ce mouvement qui, bénéficiant de gros moyens financiers, s'est toujours défendu de nager dans les eaux de l'extrême droite ou de s'apparenter à une secte.}}</ref> LaRouche sent a letter to ''Le Monde'' claiming he did not own his residence and his only revenue was his salary at ''Executive Intelligence Review''".<ref>{{cite news|title=Une lettre de M. LaRouche|language=French|last=LaRouche|first=Lyndon|newspaper=Le Monde|date=April 23, 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=c54357db0aeedaa2cc0211a4f3b3c2aaeb42f0deaaeaa7a9|accessdate=March 15, 2012|quote=Je ne suis pas un « milliardaire ». Une vérification de routine aurait permis à Cécile Chambraud d'apprendre que je ne suis même pas propriétaire de mon logement et que j'ai pour tout revenu mon salaire de rédacteur du magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), que j'ai fondé il y a plusieurs années.}}</ref> Didier Micoine wrote in ''Le Parisien'' Jacques Cheminade claimed to have a taxable income of 42,000 francs, to live with 6,000 francs a month and to own a 10 years old Peugeot 305.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|newspaper=Le Parisien|title=Trois maires se disent trompés par Jacques Cheminade|date=April 11, 1995|last=Micoine|first=Didier}}</ref>. Renaud Leblond and Loïc Stavidrès reported in ''L'Express'' Cheminade owned a 60 squared meters appartment in Paris, earned 3,000 francs a month and benefited from the remains of a family inheritance.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=Je vis avec 3,000 francs par mois|newspaper=L'Express|last=Leblond|first=Renaud|author2=Stavridès, Loïc|date=April 20, 1995|url=http://memoiremikag.chez.com/images/annexe/a7-doc2.jpg|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>. Nevertheless, according to ''Le Monde'', Cheminade claimed to be the largest donator of his campaign.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=M. Cheminade a été condamné pour vol en 1992|newspaper=Le Monde|date=April 10, 1995}}</ref>. | According to ''El Pais'', his campaign raised little interest except for the origin of its funding. According to Cécile Chambaud in ''Le Monde'', LaRouche was a "billionaire" and Cheminade's POE had always benefited of "large financial means".<ref>{{cite news|title=M. Cheminade a déposé sa liste de 500 signatures|language=French|last=Chambaud|first=Cécile|newspaper=Le Monde|date=March 19, 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=3e863d4be37d789304607a6fec047aa78ffcfbecb3b32b8a|accessdate=March 15, 2012|quote=M. Cheminade fut, de 1981 à 1991, le secrétaire général du POE, branche française de ce mouvement qui, bénéficiant de gros moyens financiers, s'est toujours défendu de nager dans les eaux de l'extrême droite ou de s'apparenter à une secte.}}</ref> LaRouche sent a letter to ''Le Monde'' claiming he did not own his residence and his only revenue was his salary at ''Executive Intelligence Review''".<ref>{{cite news|title=Une lettre de M. LaRouche|language=French|last=LaRouche|first=Lyndon|newspaper=Le Monde|date=April 23, 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=c54357db0aeedaa2cc0211a4f3b3c2aaeb42f0deaaeaa7a9|accessdate=March 15, 2012|quote=Je ne suis pas un « milliardaire ». Une vérification de routine aurait permis à Cécile Chambraud d'apprendre que je ne suis même pas propriétaire de mon logement et que j'ai pour tout revenu mon salaire de rédacteur du magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), que j'ai fondé il y a plusieurs années.}}</ref> Didier Micoine wrote in ''Le Parisien'' Jacques Cheminade claimed to have a taxable income of 42,000 francs, to live with 6,000 francs a month and to own a 10 years old Peugeot 305.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|newspaper=Le Parisien|title=Trois maires se disent trompés par Jacques Cheminade|date=April 11, 1995|last=Micoine|first=Didier}}</ref>. Renaud Leblond and Loïc Stavidrès reported in ''L'Express'' Cheminade owned a 60 squared meters appartment in Paris, earned 3,000 francs a month and benefited from the remains of a family inheritance.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=Je vis avec 3,000 francs par mois|newspaper=L'Express|last=Leblond|first=Renaud|author2=Stavridès, Loïc|date=April 20, 1995|url=http://memoiremikag.chez.com/images/annexe/a7-doc2.jpg|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>. Nevertheless, according to ''Le Monde'', Cheminade claimed to be the largest donator of his campaign.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=M. Cheminade a été condamné pour vol en 1992|newspaper=Le Monde|date=April 10, 1995}}</ref>. | ||
In October 1995, the ] (Constitutional Court), in an unprecedented decision, rejected his campaign accounts. The court considered 1.7 million francs, "over a third of the total of his declared receipts comes from twenty one loan agreements concluded after May 7, 1995".<ref name="CC">{{cite web|title=Décision Compte Cheminade 1995 du 11 octobre 1995|language=French|publisher=Conseil constitutionnel|year=1995|quote=1 711 450 F, soit plus du tiers de l'ensemble des recettes déclarées, provient de vingt et un contrats conclus postérieurement au 7 mai 1995.|url=http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/les-decisions/depuis-1958/decisions-par-date/1995/compte-cheminade-1995/decision-compte-cheminade-1995-du-11-octobre-1995.10697.html|accesdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref> |
In October 1995, the ] (Constitutional Court), in an unprecedented decision, rejected his campaign accounts. The court considered 1.7 million francs, "over a third of the total of his declared receipts comes from twenty one loan agreements concluded after May 7, 1995".<ref name="CC">{{cite web|title=Décision Compte Cheminade 1995 du 11 octobre 1995|language=French|publisher=Conseil constitutionnel|year=1995|quote=1 711 450 F, soit plus du tiers de l'ensemble des recettes déclarées, provient de vingt et un contrats conclus postérieurement au 7 mai 1995.|url=http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/les-decisions/depuis-1958/decisions-par-date/1995/compte-cheminade-1995/decision-compte-cheminade-1995-du-11-octobre-1995.10697.html|accesdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref> Because the loans were interest-free, it was argued that they were gifts in disguise. The weekly magazine '']'' reported that the finding was made despite the fact that the ] officially recommends that political campaign loans be interest-free.<ref> , ''Les Inrockuptibles'' 2.23.2012</ref> | ||
Cheminade appealed to the ], but his appeal was rejected.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Décision sur la recevabilité de la requête n° 31599/96 présentée par Jacques Cheminade contre la France|publisher=Chcę Polski normalnej — analizy polityczne i prawne|url=http://www.skubi.net/Cheminade-France.html|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>. | Cheminade appealed to the ], but his appeal was rejected.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Décision sur la recevabilité de la requête n° 31599/96 présentée par Jacques Cheminade contre la France|publisher=Chcę Polski normalnej — analizy polityczne i prawne|url=http://www.skubi.net/Cheminade-France.html|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>. Cheminade attempted unsuccessfully to argue that ], the president of the court, had a conflict of interest, having represented Cheminade's opponents in a libel case some years earlier.<ref name="Inrockuptibles">{{cite news|title=Campagnes de Chirac et de Balladur en 1995: souvenirs d'une arnaque|language=French|newspaper=Les Inrockuptibles|last=Collombat|first=Benoît|author2=Servenay, David|date=February 23, 2012|quote=Pour montrer que nous étions indépendants, nous avons invalidé Jacques Cheminade, alors qu'il n'avait commis que de légères erreurs.|url=http://www.lesinrocks.com/actualite/actu-article/t/78636/date/2012-02-23/article/quand-la-republique-couvre-largent-noir-de-la-droite/?tx_ttnews%5BsViewPointer%5D=1&cHash=7bc16c7e55704eb41801096abc880ca6|accessdate=March 17, 2012}}</ref> | ||
In november 2010, in the wake of an {{ill|fr|Affaire des frégates d'Arabie saoudite et des sous-marins du Pakistan{{!}}investigation|Karachi affair}} on the financing of ]'s 1995 presidential campaign, Raphaëlle Bacqué and Pascale Robert-Diard wrote in ''Le Monde'' the Constitutional court had hesitated to validate his campaign accounts, as they showed 10 millions francs in receipts of unknown origin.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=Et les comptes de campagne d'Edouard Balladur furent validés...|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|author2=Robert-Diard, Pascale|date=November 26, 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/11/25/et-les-comptes-de-campagne-d-edouard-balladur-furent-valides_1444772_823448.html|accessdate=March 17, 2012}}</ref> This, according to ''Le Parisien'', was later confimed by Jacques Robert, a member of the court.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jacques Robert : «On s'est tous dit qu'il se fichait de nous»|language=French|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=December 1, 2011|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/jacques-robert-on-s-est-tous-dit-qu-il-se-fichait-de-nous-01-12-2011-1747309.php|accessdate=March 17, 2012}}</ref> According to ''Les Inrockuptibles'', Jacques Robert said : "to show we were independent, we invalidated Jacques Cheminade, though his irregularities were smaller".<ref name="Inrockuptibles"/> Raphaëlle Bacqué commented in ''Le Monde'' this revelation provided Cheminade a new argument to bail himself out of the litigation with the tax authority which followed the rejection of his campaign accounts.<ref>{{cite news|title=L'affaire Karachi, bonne surprise du candidat Cheminade|language=French|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|date=December 2, 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/12/02/l-affaire-karachi-bonne-surprise-du-candidat-cheminade_1447748_823448.html|accessdate= |
In november 2010, in the wake of an {{ill|fr|Affaire des frégates d'Arabie saoudite et des sous-marins du Pakistan{{!}}investigation|Karachi affair}} on the financing of ]'s 1995 presidential campaign, Raphaëlle Bacqué and Pascale Robert-Diard wrote in ''Le Monde'' the Constitutional court had hesitated to validate his campaign accounts, as they showed 10 millions francs in receipts of unknown origin.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=Et les comptes de campagne d'Edouard Balladur furent validés...|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|author2=Robert-Diard, Pascale|date=November 26, 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/11/25/et-les-comptes-de-campagne-d-edouard-balladur-furent-valides_1444772_823448.html|accessdate=March 17, 2012}}</ref> This, according to ''Le Parisien'', was later confimed by Jacques Robert, a member of the court.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jacques Robert : «On s'est tous dit qu'il se fichait de nous»|language=French|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=December 1, 2011|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/jacques-robert-on-s-est-tous-dit-qu-il-se-fichait-de-nous-01-12-2011-1747309.php|accessdate=March 17, 2012}}</ref> According to ''Les Inrockuptibles'', Jacques Robert said : "to show we were independent, we invalidated Jacques Cheminade, though his irregularities were smaller".<ref name="Inrockuptibles"/> Raphaëlle Bacqué commented in ''Le Monde'' this revelation provided Cheminade a new argument to bail himself out of the litigation with the tax authority which followed the rejection of his campaign accounts.<ref>{{cite news|title=L'affaire Karachi, bonne surprise du candidat Cheminade|language=French|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|date=December 2, 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/12/02/l-affaire-karachi-bonne-surprise-du-candidat-cheminade_1447748_823448.html|accessdate=March17, 2012}}</ref> Roland Dumas appeared on television in 2011, saying that Cheminade was rather awkward, but the others were clever. ''Les Inrockuptibles'' reached him by phone to ask whether he had implied that the law applies differently to powerful individuals. In response, Dumas said that he meant what he said, nothing more.<ref name="Inrockuptibles"/> | ||
===Since 1996: S&P replaces FNS=== | ===Since 1996: S&P replaces FNS=== |
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Born | August 20, 1941 (1941-08-20) (age 83) Buenos Aires |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Civil servant until 1981 |
Known for | French presidential candidate, representative of Lyndon LaRouche in France |
Political party | National Caucus of Labor Committees (1974-1977) Parti ouvrier européen (1978-1989) Rassemblement pour une France libre (1989-1991) Fédération pour une nouvelle solidarité (1991-1996) Solidarité et progrès (1996- ) |
Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a French political activist. He is the head of the LaRouche movement in France.
Education and professional life
After graduating from the HEC Paris, law school, and the École nationale d'administration, Cheminade became a career officer in the Directorate of Foreign Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, a position he held until 1981.
Political career
Discovery of LaRouche's ideas
Cheminade met Lyndon LaRouche in early 1974 in New-York, where he was a commercial attaché to the French embassy from 1972 to 1977. He compares this encounter to Socratic midwifery. According to a 1976 FBI document, he was then a "rank and file member" in the National Caucus of Labor Committees, a political organization directed by Lyndon LaRouche which had founded its own "intelligence units" in 1971, where he "work in the International Intelligence Section" (see document, left). His return to France in 1977 was motivated by a desire to devote himself "full time to political activities and the advocacy of Mr. LaRouche's ideas and policies".
1978: Return to France
In 1978, he was the Parti Ouvrier européen' (POE) candidate for the legislative election in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (25th circonscription), , and obtained 0.12% of the votes. His program was :
- the creation of military force with beam weapons to protect Europe against the USSR ;
- the fight against drugs and for the promotion of moral values ;
- the fight against the IMF and against the economic crisis.
1981: Head of POE, support for Giscard
In 1981, Cheminade became the general secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Européen (POE: see European Workers Party) and the president of the French section of the Schiller Institute, and took a leave from his work as a civil servant. He tried unsuccessfully to obtain the endorsements necessary to run for the presidential election of 1981, and called before the first round to vote for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, saying : "I call upon all my partisans and friends to vote for Giscard d'Estaing. Three reasons prescribe that choice : his nuclear policy, his conception of détente and his commitment to fight monetarism. Moreover, he is in the best position to defeat François Mitterand, whose candidacy poses the gravest and most immediate danger".
1982-1985: Defense of SDI
In 1982, Cheminade published a statement presenting the POE as a "pole of reference for all anti-Malthusian forces committed to reestablish economic growth and cultural morality" and advocating a program "similar to that of Lyndon LaRouche's National Democratic Policy Committee", which included at that time freedom from "British domination of American foreign policy", worldwide public works projects, the development of nuclear energy "to stop genocide" in undeveloped nations, a crackdown on an international drug cartel, and a return to classic education to counter "the genocidalists' plan for our youth"..
In 1983, Cheminade published a statement on the danger of "new fascism" posed by an alleged plot against French president François Mitterand by some of his socialist ministers, including Jacques Delors and Michel Rocard. The next year, he published an article in Executive Intelligence Review, accusing French president François Mitterand of being a "Soviet agent of influence", as well as "the servant of the "families" involved in the Swiss-promoted "synarchist" operations that launched the fascist movement back in the 1920s on an international scale".
During the 1984 European elections, where the POE list he headed obtained 0.09% of the votes, Cheminade defended a program centered on the fight against three threats : an "immediate Russian threat that remains unperceived if not strongly favored") ; an economic and financial one caused by "rampant Malthusianism and the role of the International Monetary Fund" ; and a moral and intellectual decay, exemplified by the consumption of dangerous drugs. His program also made references to ideas the ideas of Lazare Carnot, a "Republican scientist", Jean Jaurès, the only Socialist "with broad ideas" and the only one who "knew Leibniz and the pre-Socratic philosophers", as well as Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who also "understood the epistemological foundations of France".
During the period of time from 1982 to 1984, according to his own statement, Cheminade was involved in arranging a number of meetings between "French government, military and political leaders, and Mr. LaRouche primarily on the subject of the SDI and its European complement, the Tactical Defense Initiative ("TDI")".
During the 1985 county elections, where his party presented candidates in 50 counties, Cheminade declared the POE "wholeheartedly supports Reagan's SDI program, a development program for the third world and a change in economic policy away from the International Monetary Fund".. Later the same year, he said "unless the policies of the IMF are reversed , the Soviets will rule Europe and most of the rest of the world within this decade".
1986: French PANIC proposals
In 1986, while in the United States the Larouche movement presented the PANIC proposal, Cheminade, at a press conference held together with John Seale - a British physician who claimed that HIV had been created in a Soviet laboratory as part of a plot to destroy the United States, "ridiculed" the "condom campaigns" run in many countries and claimed that AIDS could be transmitted by saliva - presented the draft of a law providing for every resident of France to be screened for AIDS every six months, and every non-resident crossing the border into France to show an AIDS-negative test certificate dating from less then six months before, or be tested, before he could be admitted into France. Another proposition of the same draft was to quarantine "full-blown AIDS cases until an effective vaccine and cure are found". Later the same year, he contributed to a conference organized by the French section of the Fusion Energy Foundation on "The Importance of the Method of Louis Pasteur for Conquering AIDS and Other Pandemics", where Dr Whiteside developed his views on the transmission of AIDS by mosquito bites, with a speech where he called "upon France to defend Science in the face of the brutal irrationalist attacks on Science".
1986: First appearance on national TV
During the campaign for the legislative election of 1986, the POE having presented more than 75 candidates in 27 departments, Cheminade was for the first time granted 8 minutes of national television time, and presented a program which included :
- an abolition of the International Monetary Fund;
- an industrialization of the Third World;
- a French Strategic Defense Initiative in cooperation with the United States, and deployment of the neutron bomb;
- a "Colbertist" approach to finance productive investments;
- an elimination of EC quotas to increase farm output;
- a war on drugs and terrorism;
- and an introduction of a classical education curriculum.
1987-1989: The end of the POE
In 1987, Cheminade, described by Daniel Carton in Le Monde as the leader of a "far-right small group", announced he would run for the 1988 presidential election with a five points program : a Marshall plan for the third world, a reform of the international monetary system, a biological defense initiative, the relaunch of spatial programs and a European version of the SDI. He did not succeed to gather the necessary number of endorsements to back him.
In 1989, Cheminade headed the POE's list for the European Parliament election, called Rassemblement pour une France libre (Movement for a Free France). Its program was to fight against "European financial cartels dominated by the London stock market" and to promote "the construction of Europe by means of large public works". Larousse's Journal of the year considered these positions were close to those expressed by the far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. The list obtained 0.18% of the votes.
He remained general secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Européen until its dissolution for bankruptcy in 1989. The POE was replaced in 1991 by the Fédération pour une Nouvelle Solidarité (FNS, Federation for a New Solidarity).
1991-1995: The FNS replaces the POE
In 1993, he was the sole candidate of his movement for the legislative election in Paris and obtained 0.32% of the votes.
1995: Presidential candidate
In 1995, Cheminade obtains 556 endorsements from mayors, allowing him to run for the presidential election. Eric Incyan and Sylvie Kaufman described in Le Monde the obtention of these endorsements as the result of a "generalized phone harassment". According to Daniel Hourquebie in Le Monde, Cheminade's envoys targeted the mayors of small rural villages, presumed to favor small candidates and 7 out of 8 of Cheminade's endorsers in the department of Gers administered municipalities of less than 165 inhabitants.. According to Renaud Dely in Libération, they pointed out to left-leaning mayors that Cheminade "filled a void" in the absence of Jacques Delors, while offering them a copy of Jean Jaurès doctoral thesis republished in 1994 with a foreword (described as an absurd rambling by Roger-Pol Droit in Le Monde by Cheminade by the publisher of the latter's party and to right-leaning mayors, the "need of defense against Russia" ; to thoses with a concern for environment, his concern for a re-emphasis of the rural worls. The mayors of Ayguetinte, Bézues-Bajon and Saint-Justin said Cheminade's envoys had been the first ones to contact them.. The mayor of Ayguetinte said he wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the political class. Other mayors commented on the insistance of Cheminade's emissaries : The mayor of Thoux said he finally accepted to be left in peace. The mayor of Planèzes that he was constantly called, at any hour, at home or at the office. Three mayors from Creuse considered they had been "deceived" on Cheminade's program and political career. The mayor of Saint-Junien-la-Bregère said he was for sorry to have signed for somebody "who does not seem to be very honnest, though I don't have a proof". The mayor of Sannat said on television : "I was told they were against racism, they seemed to be leaning to the left and he was a small candidate. But when I learned he was at the far-right and had been condemned, I jumped".. Cheminade replied they had been harassed by journalists who told them he was a crank and his party wa a sect.
His speeches, invoking the patronages of Jaurès and de Gaulle, were centered on a "speculative cancer" destroying the world economy and for which Cheminade was blaming the "financial oligarchy" of the City of London, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and the IMF, as well as their French "relays", such as the Banque de France. He advocated bankrupting agents of the international monetary and financial system, a "new Marshall Plan" and credit control..
Cheminade obtained 0.27% of the votes.
Controversy over campaign finance
According to El Pais, his campaign raised little interest except for the origin of its funding. According to Cécile Chambaud in Le Monde, LaRouche was a "billionaire" and Cheminade's POE had always benefited of "large financial means". LaRouche sent a letter to Le Monde claiming he did not own his residence and his only revenue was his salary at Executive Intelligence Review". Didier Micoine wrote in Le Parisien Jacques Cheminade claimed to have a taxable income of 42,000 francs, to live with 6,000 francs a month and to own a 10 years old Peugeot 305.. Renaud Leblond and Loïc Stavidrès reported in L'Express Cheminade owned a 60 squared meters appartment in Paris, earned 3,000 francs a month and benefited from the remains of a family inheritance.. Nevertheless, according to Le Monde, Cheminade claimed to be the largest donator of his campaign..
In October 1995, the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Court), in an unprecedented decision, rejected his campaign accounts. The court considered 1.7 million francs, "over a third of the total of his declared receipts comes from twenty one loan agreements concluded after May 7, 1995". Because the loans were interest-free, it was argued that they were gifts in disguise. The weekly magazine Les Inrockuptibles reported that the finding was made despite the fact that the Commission des Comptes de Campagne officially recommends that political campaign loans be interest-free.
Cheminade appealed to the European Court of Justice, but his appeal was rejected.. Cheminade attempted unsuccessfully to argue that Roland Dumas, the president of the court, had a conflict of interest, having represented Cheminade's opponents in a libel case some years earlier.
In november 2010, in the wake of an fr [investigation:Karachi affair|Affaire des frégates d'Arabie saoudite et des sous-marins du Pakistan|investigation] on the financing of Édouard Balladur's 1995 presidential campaign, Raphaëlle Bacqué and Pascale Robert-Diard wrote in Le Monde the Constitutional court had hesitated to validate his campaign accounts, as they showed 10 millions francs in receipts of unknown origin. This, according to Le Parisien, was later confimed by Jacques Robert, a member of the court. According to Les Inrockuptibles, Jacques Robert said : "to show we were independent, we invalidated Jacques Cheminade, though his irregularities were smaller". Raphaëlle Bacqué commented in Le Monde this revelation provided Cheminade a new argument to bail himself out of the litigation with the tax authority which followed the rejection of his campaign accounts. Roland Dumas appeared on television in 2011, saying that Cheminade was rather awkward, but the others were clever. Les Inrockuptibles reached him by phone to ask whether he had implied that the law applies differently to powerful individuals. In response, Dumas said that he meant what he said, nothing more.
Since 1996: S&P replaces FNS
Since 1996, he has been the chairman of one of LaRouche's political parties, Solidarité et Progrès (Solidarity and Progress).
In 1996, Cheminade wrote an article in Executive Intelligence Review entitled "Time To Destroy The Mythology of Bonapartism". He claimed "the British-French 'Entente Cordiale' is, today, the main threat to world history and it is Napoleon who burned the French state to ashes, and his degenerate brothers and descendants, his famiglia, who sold whatever they had to the British". According to this article, Napoleon had been "brought to madness" by the "mental control" of the British "oligarchical order", becoming a "pirate for the oligarchs". Cheminade added : "Napoleon, like Hitler, was first promoted by the British, as were the Jacobins before them, to destroy France, and to prevent a truly republican option". He further claimed : "Beyond the destruction of the French nation-state, what comes clearly to the light of day, is the second historical role assigned to Napoleon: the promotion of paganism, to destroy the humanist world liberation project. Against such a project, Napoleon was the dangerous but useful idiot of the oligarchs".
In 1997, shortly after the death of Princess Diana, Cheminade wrote an article in Executive Intelligence Review, next to an article by Lyndon LaRouche claiming "officials of France’s Socialist government supervised the death of Princess Diana" and introducing Cheminade's own article as "an insider’s view of the decadent, doomed tradition which Mitterrand’s Presidency set into place". Cheminade's own article claimed president Mitterand was "an agent of British influence", "all governments in France, since at least 1980, have continuously and persistently betrayed the sovereignty of their nation-state It is uniquely in that context, that the Lady Diana case can be understood".
In 1998, Cheminade claimed his party was the only one "to call for a positive alternative to the euro, with a New Bretton Woods system a Eurasian Land-Bridge". The same year, he claimed the trial of Roland Dumas and the murder of prefect Claude Erignac were "connected to the international financial and monetary implosion, and to the British games in Europe and beyond". In 1999, he wrote : "The cause of the war is not Iraq, or Yugoslavia, the United States, or even Britain. It is the financial oligarchy of the City of London and Wall Street which has declared war on the people, in Africa, in Russia, and elsewhere, where living standards and life expectancy are collapsing. The leading role in all cases has been played by the British."
In 2000, Cheminade wrote "the assassins of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King were the same people who tried to murder de Gaulle, for the same oligarchical reasons". The same year, after the crash of Air France Flight 4590, he claimed it could be due to a sabotage, as the French authorities had "challenged the Anglo-American oligarchy in many areas".
In 2000, Cheminade announced he would be a candidate in the 2002 presidential election. He did not succeed to reach the necessary 500 endorsements, gathering only 406 of them. He sued fr [Nicolas Miguet], another presidential candidate, for slander and was granted damages. Cheminade filed a complaint to the Conseil constitutionnel, arguing he had been the subject of press attacks in order to deter mayors from endorsing him. The claim was rejected.
In 2001, Cheminade proposed the issuance of a gold based euro, "as a measure of national emergency under the present circumstances", with reference to "initiatives taken in Russia and Malaysia going in the same direction, with for example the issuance of the Russian golden chervonets". This was part of what LaRouche and Cheminade called a "new Bretton-Woods", defined by Cheminade in 2003 as "a system of stable exchanges, based on a common reference, a gold-reserve system (and not a gold standard system), gold being used among states to settle their accounts, but not as a basis for credit".
In 2004, Cheminade and Eric Sauzé, his party's candidate in the Lyon county election were found guilty of slander against Dominique Perben, the minister of Justice, for the comparaison in pictures of Pétain shaking hands with Hitler in Montoire-sur-le-Loir and Perben recently doing the same with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcrof. Cheminade was condemned to pay a fine of 15,000 euros. The judgement considered the leaflet made "a comparison between two periods of the history of France that have strictly nothing in common in terms of human and citizens’ rights" and Cheminade had "the objective disposition of resources that allowed them to print 25,000 copies of leaflet”.. the judgement was confirmed in appeal in 2006.
In 2004, during the restructuring of the Argentinian debt, which laRouche compared to ""transform Argentina into another Auschwitz",, Cheminade organized protests in Paris, such as the distribution of leaflets claiming "that what happens in Argentina, will happen tomorrow in France, Germany, and all of Europe, and the United States, unless we take the road LaRouche has indicated, which is the New Bretton Woods" or organizing a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Lazard, the bank advising the Argentinian government.
In November 2005, Cheminade was a panelist at the conference of Axis for Peace organized by the Voltaire network in Belgium.
In the 2007 French presidential race, he endorsed Ségolène Royal.
2012: Second presidential candidacy
On January 31, 2012, Cheminade announced that he had obtained the necessary 500 endorsements from elected officials that are required for ballot status in the presidential election. Cheminade will run on a platform of:
- separation of commercial banking from investment banking, to end the "casino economy."
- a system of public credit for major development projects.
- investment in "human creativity."
- a Eurasian/Transpacific alliance against the "world of finance."
- the removal of heads of state who "lead us blindly into chaos and war."
References
- ^ "Qui est Jacques Cheminade". France Soir. 31 January 2012.
- ^ Canning v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 848 F. Supp. 1037 (District Court, D. C. 1994).
- Jacques Cheminade (September 2, 2006). "Ce que sont pour moi Lyndon H. et Helga Zepp-Larouche" (in French). Cheminade le sursaut. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- Ellen Hume (February 16, 1980). "LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label". Los Angeles Times.
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- Leclercq, Jacques (2008). Dictionnaire de la mouvance droitiste et nationale, de 1945 à nos jours (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. p. 533. ISBN 9782296064768.
- "Qui est-il" (in French). Cheminade le sursaut. Retrieved March 4 2012.
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(help) - ^ Uphaum Phau, Garance (April 28, 1981). "The lineup for the French presidential elections" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ^ Laval, Gilbert (April 8, 1995). "Pour qui roule Jacques Cheminade ? Le patron de l'ex-POE est lié à un groupe américain qui dénonce le sionisme et la City". Libération (in French). Retrieved March 11, 2012.
- "Where has the opposition gone" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. May 25, 1982. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- Lynn, Frank (September 20, 1982). "Klenetsky opposes Moynihan with unusual list of charges". New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- Upham Phau, Garance (March 1, 1983). "French Fabians try to undercut Mitterrand" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
- Cheminade, Jacques (December 18, 1984). "Mitterrand joins Soviet offensive to destroy France and the Western alliance" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
- "Élections européennes 1984" (in French). France-Politique. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
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- "EIR briefing on SDI held in Spain" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. May 21, 1985. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- Tourney, Christopher (1996). Conjuring science: scientific symbols and cultural meanings in American life. Rutgers University Press. p. 88. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- Rosenfeld, Laurent (April 10, 1987). "Fighting AIDS: a Pasteurian approach" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- "Thatcher leads European prime ministers in 'war on AIDS'" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. December 19, 1986. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- Whiteside, Mark (July 18, 1986). "AIDS in the Tropics : how does it spread" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- "Pasteur's method revived for study of life processes" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. June 20, 1986. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- Müller, Hervé (April 10, 1986). "Les Américains se découvrent un Le Pen : Lyndon H. LaRouche" (PDF). L'Evènement du jeudi (in French). Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- Adrien Gouteyron (1986). "Rapport d'information sur l'application de la loi n°86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986" (in French). Sénat. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- Celiani, Liliana (March 7, 1986). "'Combative' candidates turn France on head". Executive Intelligence Review.
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- L'Année politique, économique et sociale (in French). Le Moniteur. 1995. p. 55. ISBN 9782950744432.
- "Rassemblement pour une France libre". Le Monde (in French). April 14, 1989. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
Cette liste s'oppose à "l'Europe des cartels financiers, dominée par la Bourse de Londres", et propose une "Europe construite autour de grands projets".
- Journal de l'année. Larousse. 1990. p. 186.
Ses positionspolitiques rapprochaient de celles de Jean-Maris Le Pen.
- "Élections européennes 1989" (in French). France-politique.fr. 1989. Retrieved March 14, 1989.
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(help) - Mikael, Gérard (2003). Marcel Barbu et Jacques Cheminade: Deux candidats hors-parti à l'élection présidentielle (in French). Le Manuscrit. p. 88. ISBN 9782748113952. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
- "Jacques Cheminade" (in French). March 8, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- "La campagne pour les élections législatives Paris : des étiquettes de toutes les couleurs". le Monde. March 7, 1993.
Sur le front de l'extrême droite une tentative opérée aussi, en solitaire, par M. Jacques Cheminade, dirigeant du Parti ouvrier européen (POE).
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- Inciyan, Eric; Kaufmann, Sylvie (April 21, 1995). "Jacques Cheminade derrière son rideau de fumée". Le Monde.
- ^ Hourquebie, Daniel (April 17, 1995). "Jacques Cheminade ou l'art de battre la campagne". Le Monde (in French).
- Droit, Roger-Pol (July 29, 1994). "Jaurès entre lumière et ténèbres". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved March 15, 1994.
On peut s'étonner que ce soient les Editions Alcuin, liées au Parti ouvrier européen, souvent classé à l'extrême droite, qui aient pris cette initiative. Dans une préface aberrante, Jacques Cheminade, principale figure française depuis les années 80 de cette étrange formation, estime que l'oeuvre de Jaurès aurait été défigurée par ceux qui se disent ses amis. Pis: une oligarchie puissante autant que mystérieuse s'opposerait à la démocratie voulue par le philosophe. Ces divagations peuvent être laissées de côté.
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(help) - ^ Dely, Renaud (April 14, 1995). "Cheminade ? Je me suis fait avoir". Libération (in French).
- "El increíble que da credibilidad y que juega a ser payaso". El Pais. April 20, 1995. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
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- "Polémique Cheminade". INA. 1995. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- "Cheminade" (in French). INA. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- Choffat, Thierry (1997). L'élection présidentielle de 1995 (in French). Presses universitaires de Nancy. pp. 17, 20. ISBN 9782864808640.
- "Profession de foi" (PDF) (in French). Cheminade2012. 1995. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- Chambaud, Cécile (March 19, 1995). "M. Cheminade a déposé sa liste de 500 signatures". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved March 15, 2012.
M. Cheminade fut, de 1981 à 1991, le secrétaire général du POE, branche française de ce mouvement qui, bénéficiant de gros moyens financiers, s'est toujours défendu de nager dans les eaux de l'extrême droite ou de s'apparenter à une secte.
- LaRouche, Lyndon (April 23, 1995). "Une lettre de M. LaRouche". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved March 15, 2012.
Je ne suis pas un « milliardaire ». Une vérification de routine aurait permis à Cécile Chambraud d'apprendre que je ne suis même pas propriétaire de mon logement et que j'ai pour tout revenu mon salaire de rédacteur du magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), que j'ai fondé il y a plusieurs années.
- Micoine, Didier (April 11, 1995). "Trois maires se disent trompés par Jacques Cheminade". Le Parisien (in French).
- Leblond, Renaud; Stavridès, Loïc (April 20, 1995). "Je vis avec 3,000 francs par mois". L'Express (in French). Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- "M. Cheminade a été condamné pour vol en 1992". Le Monde (in French). April 10, 1995.
- "Décision Compte Cheminade 1995 du 11 octobre 1995" (in French). Conseil constitutionnel. 1995.
1 711 450 F, soit plus du tiers de l'ensemble des recettes déclarées, provient de vingt et un contrats conclus postérieurement au 7 mai 1995.
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- "Décision sur la recevabilité de la requête n° 31599/96 présentée par Jacques Cheminade contre la France" (in French). Chcę Polski normalnej — analizy polityczne i prawne. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
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Pour montrer que nous étions indépendants, nous avons invalidé Jacques Cheminade, alors qu'il n'avait commis que de légères erreurs.
- Bacqué, Raphaëlle; Robert-Diard, Pascale (November 26, 2010). "Et les comptes de campagne d'Edouard Balladur furent validés..." Le Monde (in French). Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Jacques Robert : «On s'est tous dit qu'il se fichait de nous»". Le Parisien (in French). December 1, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Bacqué, Raphaëlle (December 2, 2010). "L'affaire Karachi, bonne surprise du candidat Cheminade". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved March17, 2012.
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- Cheminade, Jacques (October 18, 1996). "Time To Destroy The Mythology of Bonapartism". Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- LaRouche, Lyndon (November 28, 1997). "France: between decadence and hope" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- Cheminade, Jacques (November 28, 1997). "Mitterrand's corrupt legacy against France's Fifth Republic" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
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(help) - Cheminade, Jacques. "France's elite opts for national suicide" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- Cheminade, Jacques (February 27, 1998). "Scandal, murder, power struggles target French republican system" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- Cheminade, Jacques (June 25, 1999). "The role for France in global recovery" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- Cheminade, Jacques (June 16, 2000). "FDR and Jean Monnet: The Battle vs. British Imperial Methods Can Be Won". Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 17, 2000.
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(help) - Cheminade, Jacques (August 11, 2000). "Concorde Crash Comes as France Bucks the British" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Burdmann, Mark (August 18, 2000). "London goes Berserk against France" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Briefly" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. October 20, 2000. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Raulin, Nathalie (April 15, 2004). "Petit (ré)actionnaire". Libération (in French). Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Right-Wing Slanderer of Cheminade is Guilty" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. October 10, 2003. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Décision Cheminade du 07 avril 2002" (in French). Conseil constitutionnel. 2002. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Report on EIR Seminar: "What Can Be Done in the Face of The Financial Meltdown ?". Schiller Institute. November 5, 2001. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Cheminade, Jacques (January 24, 2003). "The Mission of France. Beyond Iraq: War Avoidance Through Sovereign States' Mutual Development". Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "French Court Slams Cheminade for 'Slander'" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. October 22, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "Perben contre Cheminade: 2-0 en appel". 20 minutes (in French). March 4, 2006. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Rush, Cynthia. "Argentina vs. IMF: 'Test Issue' for U.S. Leaders". Executive Intelligence review. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- Rush, Cynthia (March 5, 2004). "Defend Argentina — Honor Lopez Portillo" (PDF). Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "L'Argentine contre le FMI : Pour les droits inaliénables de l'Homme" (in French). Solidarité et progrès. 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
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- Solidarité & Progrès - L’appel de Jacques Cheminade pour le vote en faveur de Ségolène Royal en France
External links
- Transcript of an interview with Cheminade
- Cheminade for the 2012 presidential elections (in French)
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