Chirac doing well but political scene has shifted
AFP, September, 2005
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PARIS (AFP) — President Jacques Chirac was officially in good shape on the third day of his hospitalisation for an eye disorder, but there was growing speculation about how his sudden illness may have altered the country's political scene.
"Nothing will be the same as before. Already everything has changed," the popular daily Le Parisien said Monday. "The Fifth Republic has always been a republican monarchy -- and when the chief is weakened, everyone feels it."
"Strictly speaking, nothing has happened," said the conservative Le Figaro noting that Chirac's latest medical bulletin declares his condition as "very satisfactory."
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"But still -- everyone has a confused feeling that something has shifted," it said in an editorial.
The 72 year-old leader is under observation in the Val de Grace hospital in Paris after suffering what was officially described as a "minor vascular incident that led to a slight vision disorder which should ...
