30 Facts About Jacques Cheminade

Jacques Cheminade is the head of the Solidarity and Progress party, the French arm of the LaRouche movement.

Jacques Cheminade has thrice run for President of France, always placing last.

Jacques Cheminade met Lyndon LaRouche in early 1974 in New York, where he was a commercial attache to the French embassy from 1972 to 1977.

In 1981, Jacques Cheminade became the general secretary of the 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.

In 1987, Jacques 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-point 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.

Jacques Cheminade did not succeed to gather the necessary number of endorsements to back him.

In 1989, Jacques Cheminade headed the POE's list for the European Parliament election, called Rassemblement pour une France libre.

Jacques Cheminade remained general secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Europeen until its dissolution for bankruptcy in 1989.

In 1992, Jacques Cheminade was condemned with suspension to 15 months of imprisonment for theft.

In 1995, Jacques Cheminade obtained 556 endorsements from mayors, allowing him to run in the presidential election.

Jacques Cheminade replied they had been harassed by journalists who told them he was a crank and his party was a sect.

Jacques Cheminade advocated bankrupting agents of the international monetary and financial system, a "new Marshall Plan" and credit control.

Didier Micoine wrote in Le Parisien that 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-year-old Peugeot 305.

Renaud Leblond and Loic Stavidres reported in L'Express Jacques Cheminade owned a 60-square-metre apartment in Paris, earned 3,000 francs a month and benefited from the remains of a family inheritance.

Nevertheless, according to Le Monde, Jacques Cheminade claimed to be the largest donator of his campaign.

Notwithstanding, Jacques Cheminade claimed the Civil code did not require a loan to bear interest, an assertion later confirmed by a lawyer specialized in civil law consulted by Le Journal du Dimanche.

Jacques Cheminade claimed Roland Dumas, the president of the council, had a conflict of interest with him, having represented his opponents in a libel case some years earlier.

Jacques Cheminade appealed to the European Court of Justice, but his appeal was rejected.

In 1996, Jacques Cheminade wrote an article in Executive Intelligence Review entitled "Time To Destroy The Mythology of Bonapartism".

In 1998, Jacques Cheminade claimed his party was the only one "to call for a positive alternative to the euro, with a New Bretton Woods system [and] a Eurasian Land-Bridge".

In 2000, Jacques Cheminade announced he would be a candidate in the 2002 presidential election.

Jacques Cheminade did not succeed to reach the necessary 500 endorsements, gathering only 406 of them.

Jacques Cheminade sued Nicolas Miguet, another presidential candidate, for slander and was granted damages.

In 2001, Jacques 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".

Jacques 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 Jacques Cheminade had "the objective disposition of resources that allowed them to print 25,000 copies of [the] leaflet".

Jacques Cheminade opposed the European constitution proposed in the 2005 referendum, claiming it was a policy leading to fascism and to war.

In November 2005, Jacques Cheminade was a panelist at the conference of Axis for Peace organized by the Voltaire network in Belgium.

On 31 January 2012 Jacques Cheminade announced that he had obtained the necessary 500 endorsements from elected officials that are required for ballot status in the presidential election.

Jacques Cheminade obtained 89,000 votes nationwide.