Further information: On 29 May 2005, a was held in France to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed treaty for a (TCE). The result was a victory for the No campaign, with 55 percent of voters rejecting the treaty on a turnout of 69 percent, dealing a devastating blow to Chirac and the (UMP) party, and to part of the centre-left which had supported the TCE.

Following the referendum defeat, Chirac replaced his Prime Minister with Domenique de Villepin. In an address to the nation, Chirac has declared that the new cabinet's top priority would be to curb unemployment, which was consistently hovering above 10 percent, calling for a 'national mobilisation' to that effect. 2005 civil unrest and CPE protests [ ]. Further information: and Following major, which followed in autumn 2005 after the death of two young boys in, one of the poorest French communes located in Paris' suburbs, Chirac retracted the proposed (CPE) by 'promulgating [it] without applying it', an unheard-of – and, some claim, illegal – move intended to appease the protesters while giving the appearance of not making a volte-face regarding the contract, and therefore to continue his support for his Prime Minister.

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Retirement [ ] In early September 2005, he suffered an event that his doctors described as a 'vascular incident'. It was reported as a 'minor stroke' or a mini-stroke (also known as a ). He recovered and returned to his duties soon after. In a pre-recorded television broadcast aired on 11 March 2007, Jacques Chirac announced, in a widely predicted move, that he would not choose to seek a third term as France's president.

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(In 2000 the constitution had been amended to reduce the length of Presidents' terms to five years, so Chirac's second term was shorter than his first.) 'My whole life has been committed to serving France, and serving peace', Chirac said, adding that he would find new ways to serve France after leaving office. He did not explain the reasons for his decision. Chirac did not, during the broadcast, endorse any of the candidates running for election, but did devote several minutes of his talk to a plea against extremist politics that was considered a thinly disguised invocation to voters not to vote for and a recommendation to not to orient his campaign so as to include themes traditionally associated with Le Pen.

Post-presidency [ ] Shortly after leaving office, he launched the in June 2008. Since then it has been striving for peace through five advocacy programmes: conflict prevention, access to water and sanitation, access to quality medicines and healthcare, access to land resources, and preservation of cultural diversity. It supports field projects that involve local people and provide concrete and innovative solutions. Chirac chairs the jury for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by his foundation.

Jacques Chirac at Saint-Tropez in 2010 As a former President, he is entitled to a lifetime pension and personal security protection, and is ex-officio a member for life of. He sat for the first time on the Council on 15 November 2007, six months after leaving the French Presidency. Immediately after Sarkozy's victory, Chirac moved into a 180 square metre on the Quai Voltaire in Paris lent to him by the family of former Lebanese Prime Minister.

During the Didier Schuller affair, the latter accused Hariri of having participated in illegal funding of the 's political campaigns, but the judge closed the case without further investigations. In Volume 2 of his memoirs published in June 2011, Chirac mocked his successor as 'irritable, rash, impetuous, disloyal, ungrateful, and un-French'. Chirac wrote that he considered firing Sarkozy previously, and conceded responsibility in allowing to advance in 2002. A poll conducted in 2010 suggested he was the most admired political figure in France, while Sarkozy was 32nd.