comfortable parliamentary majority. Two years later, the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_for_the_Republic" title="Rally for the Republic">RPR</a> leader Jacques Chirac was elected <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France" title="President of France">President of France</a> promising to reduce the "social fracture". However, the programme of welfare reforms ("Plan Juppé") proposed by his Prime Minister <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Jupp%C3%A9" title="Alain Juppé">Alain Juppé</a