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{{Short description|French-Argentinian politician (born 1941)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Jacques Cheminade
| image              = Jacques cheminade 22102209 (cropped).jpg
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| birth_name         = Jacques Guy Cheminade
| birth_date         = {{Birth-date and age|20 August 1941}}
| birth_place        = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
| death_date         = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place        = 
| nationality        = French<br />Argentinian
| other_names        = 
| known_for          = French [[Perennial candidate|perennial]] presidential candidate ([[1995 French presidential election|1995]], [[2012 French presidential election|2012]], [[2017 French presidential election|2017]]), representative of [[Lyndon LaRouche]] in France
| party              = Solidarité et progrès (1996–present)
| otherparty         = [[National Caucus of Labor Committees]] (1974–1977)<br /> 
Parti ouvrier européen (1978–1989)<br />Rassemblement pour une France libre (1989–1991) <br />Fédération pour une nouvelle solidarité (1991–1996)
| occupation         = Civil servant until 1981
| alma_mater         = [[HEC Paris]]<br>[[École nationale d'administration]]
}}
'''Jacques Guy Cheminade''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒak ʃəminad}}; born 20 August 1941) is a French politician, activist and former diplomat. He is the head of the Solidarity and Progress (SP) party, the French arm of the [[LaRouche movement]]. He has thrice run for [[President of France]] ([[1995 French presidential election|1995]], [[2012 French presidential election|2012]], [[2017 French presidential election|2017]]), always placing last.

==Education and professional life==
Cheminade was born in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina from French parents. He returned to France at age 18. After graduating from [[HEC Paris]], law school, as well as the [[École nationale d'administration]] (ÉNA), 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.<ref name=FS/>

==Political career==
===Discovery of LaRouche's ideas===
[[File:FBI Cheminade 1976.jpg|thumb|left|upright|FBI document on Jacques Cheminade (1976).]]
Cheminade met [[Lyndon LaRouche]] in early 1974 in New York, where he was a commercial [[attaché]] to the French embassy from 1972 to 1977.<ref name="Canning">{{cite court|litigants=Canning v. U.S. Dept. of Justice|vol=848|reporter=F. Supp.|opinion=1037|court=District Court, D. C.|year=1994|url=http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?page=1&xmldoc=19941885848FSupp1037_11732.xml&docbase=CSLWAR2-1986-2006|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> He compares this encounter to [[maieutics|Socratic midwifery]].<ref name="Sursaut">{{cite web|language=fr|title=Ce que sont pour moi Lyndon H. et Helga Zepp-Larouche|publisher=Cheminade le sursaut|author=Jacques Cheminade|date=2 September 2006|url=http://www.jacquescheminade.fr/Ce-que-sont-pour-moi-Lyndon-H-et-Helga-Zepp-LaRouche_00182|access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|author=Ellen Hume|date=16 February 1980}}</ref> where he "work[ed] in the International Intelligence Section" (see document, left).<ref name="Canning"/> 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".<ref name="Canning"/>

===1978: Return to France===
In 1978, he was the Parti Ouvrier Européen (POE) candidate for the [[1978 French legislative election|legislative election]] in the [[18th arrondissement of Paris]] (25th circonscription), and obtained 0.12% of the votes.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Le CV de Jacques Cheminade|author=Mathieu David|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Europe 1|url=http://www.europe1.fr/Presidentielle-2012/Le-CV-de-Jacques-Cheminade-980889/|access-date=11 March 2012|archive-date=10 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310233454/http://www.europe1.fr/Presidentielle-2012/Le-CV-de-Jacques-Cheminade-980889/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His program was:
* the creation of military force with [[Particle-beam weapon|beam weapon]]s 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.<ref>{{cite book|language=fr|title=Dictionnaire de la mouvance droitiste et nationale, de 1945 à nos jours|last=Leclercq|first=Jacques|publisher=L'Harmattan|location=Paris|isbn=9782296064768|year=2008|page=533}}</ref>

===1981: Head of POE, support for Giscard===
In 1981, Cheminade became the general secretary of the European Workers Party and the president of the French section of the [[Schiller Institute]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Qui est-il|publisher=Cheminade le sursaut|url=http://www.cheminade-le-sursaut.org/chemi_quiestil.php|access-date=4 March 2012|language=fr}}</ref> and took a leave from his work as a civil servant.<ref name="Uphaum">{{cite news|title=The lineup for the French presidential elections|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Uphaum Phau|first=Garance|date=28 April 1981|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1981/eirv08n17-19810428/eirv08n17-19810428_034-the_lineup_for_the_french_presid.pdf|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> He tried unsuccessfully to obtain the endorsements necessary to run for the [[1981 French presidential election|presidential election of 1981]],<ref name="Laval">{{cite news|language=fr|title=Pour qui roule Jacques Cheminade ? Le patron de l'ex-POE est lié à un groupe américain qui dénonce le sionisme et la City.|last=Laval|first=Gilbert|newspaper=Libération|date=8 April 1995|url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/0101139991-pour-qui-roule-jacques-cheminade-le-patron-de-l-ex-poe-est-lie-a-un-groupe-americain-qui-denonce-le-sionisme-et-la-city|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref> 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 Mitterrand, whose candidacy poses the gravest and most immediate danger".<ref name="Uphaum"/>

===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]]",<ref>{{cite news|title=Where has the opposition gone|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=25 May 1982|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1982/eirv09n20-19820525/eirv09n20-19820525_031-where_has_the_opposition_gone.pdf|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> 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".{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

In 1983, Cheminade published a statement on the danger of "new fascism" posed by an alleged plot against French president [[François Mitterrand]] by some of his socialist ministers, including [[Jacques Delors]] and [[Michel Rocard]].<ref>{{cite news|title=French Fabians try to undercut Mitterrand|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Upham Phau|first=Garance|date=1 March 1983|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1983/eirv10n08-19830301/eirv10n08-19830301_044-french_fabians_try_to_undercut_m.pdf|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref> The next year, he published an article in ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'', accusing French president François Mitterrand 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Mitterrand joins Soviet offensive to destroy France and the Western alliance|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|date=18 December 1984|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1984/eirv11n49-19841218/eirv11n49-19841218_040-mitterrand_joins_soviet_offensiv.pdf|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref>

During the 1984 [[Elections in the European Union|European elections]], where the POE list he headed obtained 0.09% of the votes,<ref>{{cite web|title=Élections européennes 1984|language=fr|publisher=France-Politique|url=http://www.france-politique.fr/elections-europeennes-1984.htm|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref> 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 referenced 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, Marquis de Seignelay|Jean-Baptiste Colbert]], who also "understood the epistemological foundations of France".<ref>{{cite news|title=Les références de M. Cheminade|language=fr|newspaper=le Monde|date=3 June 1984}}</ref>

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 [the Strategic Defense Initiative ("SDI")] and its European complement, the Tactical Defense Initiative ("TDI")".<ref name="Canning"/>

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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Mitterrand's unpopularity confirmed|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Rosenfeld|first=Laurent|date=26 March 1985|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1985/eirv12n12-19850326/eirv12n12-19850326_049-report_from_paris.pdf|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=EIR briefing on SDI held in Spain|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=21 May 1985|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1985/eirv12n20-19850521/eirv12n20-19850521.pdf|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>

===1986: French PANIC proposals===
In 1986, while in the United States the Larouche movement presented the [[Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement#PANIC proposal and AIDS|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,<ref>{{cite book|title=Conjuring science: scientific symbols and cultural meanings in American life|last=Tourney|first=Christopher|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=1996|page=88|isbn=9780813522852|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kV7j8tUq0rcC&pg=PA88|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> "ridiculed" the "condom campaigns" run in many countries and claimed that AIDS could be transmitted by saliva<ref>{{cite news|title=Fighting AIDS: a Pasteurian approach|last=Rosenfeld|first=Laurent|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=10 April 1987|url=https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1987/eirv14n15-19870410/eirv14n15-19870410_016-fighting_aids_a_pasteurian_appro.pdf|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> – 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 than 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Thatcher leads European prime ministers in 'war on AIDS'|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=19 December 1986|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1986/eirv13n50-19861219/eirv13n50-19861219_006-thatcher_leads_european_prime_mi.pdf|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite news|title=AIDS in the Tropics : how does it spread|last=Whiteside|first=Mark|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=18 July 1986|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1986/eirv13n28-19860718/eirv13n28-19860718_040-aids_in_the_tropics_how_does_it.pdf|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> with a speech where he called "upon France to defend Science in the face of the brutal irrationalist attacks on Science".<ref>{{cite news|title=Pasteur's method revived for study of life processes|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=20 June 1986|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1986/eirv13n25-19860620/eirv13n25-19860620_052-pasteurs_method_revived_for_stud.pdf|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>

===1986: First appearance on national TV===
During the campaign for the [[1986 French legislative election|legislative election of 1986]], the POE having presented more than 75 candidates in 27 departments,<ref>{{cite news|title=Les Américains se découvrent un Le Pen : Lyndon H. LaRouche|last=Müller|first=Hervé|newspaper=L'Evènement du jeudi|date=10 April 1986|url=http://static.skynetblogs.be/list/50037/documents-de-sur-larouche-et-cie/2594097686.pdf|access-date=13 March 2012|language=fr}}</ref> Cheminade was for the first time granted 8 minutes of national television time,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rapport d'information sur l'application de la loi n°86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986|publisher=Sénat|author=Adrien Gouteyron|language=fr|year=1986|url=http://www.vie-publique.fr/documents-vp/rapport_senat_20.shtml|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|title='Combative' candidates turn France on head|last=Celiani|first=Liliana|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=7 March 1986}}</ref>

===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",<ref>{{cite news|title=Une campagne contre M. Barre Signé : anonyme|last=Carton|first=Daniel|date=6 December 1987|newspaper=Le Monde|language=fr|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=e2e6e3ed5b9a6af1462cfbd3f2277582c0e9923f84ab758d|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> announced he would run for the [[1988 French presidential election|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.<ref>{{cite news|title=M.Jacques Cheminade (extrême droite) et l'Elysée.|newspaper=Le Monde|date=5 September 1987|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/recherche_breve/1,13-0,37-578305,0.html|access-date=14 March 2012|language=fr}}</ref> He did not succeed to gather the necessary number of endorsements to back him.<ref>{{cite book|title=L'Année politique, économique et sociale|publisher=Le Moniteur|year=1995|language=fr|page=55|isbn=9782950744432}}</ref>

In 1989, Cheminade headed the POE's list for the [[1989 European Parliament election in France|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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Rassemblement pour une France libre|newspaper=Le Monde|date=14 April 1989|language=fr|quote=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".|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=d4c3326ed24d1b71aab84a1df5b0282720a5cabd140595c9|access-date=14 March 2012}}</ref> [[Éditions Larousse|Larousse]]'s ''Journal of the year'' considered these positions were close to those expressed by the far-right politician [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal de l'année|publisher=Larousse|year=1990|page=186|quote=Ses positionspolitiques [le] rapprochaient de celles de Jean-Maris Le Pen.}}</ref> The list obtained 0.18% of the votes.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Élections européennes 1989|publisher=France-politique.fr|url=http://www.france-politique.fr/elections-europeennes-1989.htm|year=1989}}</ref>

He remained general secretary of the ''Parti Ouvrier Européen'' until its dissolution for bankruptcy<ref>{{cite book|title=Marcel Barbu et Jacques Cheminade: Deux candidats hors-parti à l'élection présidentielle|language=fr|last=Mikael|first=Gérard|publisher=Le Manuscrit|year=2003|page=88|isbn=9782748113952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57B9szOB-T8C&pg=PA88|access-date=6 March 2012}}</ref> in 1989. The POE was replaced in 1991 by the ''Fédération pour une Nouvelle Solidarité'' (FNS, Federation for a New Solidarity).<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Jacques Cheminade|date=8 March 2012|url=http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Election-presidentielle-2012/2012/03/08/article_jacques-cheminade.shtml|access-date=16 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317100958/http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Election-presidentielle-2012/2012/03/08/article_jacques-cheminade.shtml|archive-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

===1991–1995: The FNS replaces the POE===
In 1993, he was the sole candidate of his movement<ref>{{cite news|title=La campagne pour les élections législatives Paris : des étiquettes de toutes les couleurs|newspaper=le Monde|date=7 March 1993|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=9fb1549781fc32fd1d7eea195153a2e6a423323350cc3c50|access-date=15 March 2012|quote=Sur le front de l'extrême droite [...] une tentative opérée aussi, en solitaire, par M. Jacques Cheminade, dirigeant du Parti ouvrier européen (POE).}}</ref> for the [[1993 French legislative election|legislative election]] in Paris and obtained 0.32% of the votes.<ref name="Laval"/>

===1992: Theft trial===
In 1992, Cheminade was condemned with suspension to 15 months of imprisonment for theft.<ref name="LM">{{cite news|language=fr|title=M. Cheminade a été condamné pour vol en 1992|newspaper=Le Monde|date=9 April 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/recherche_breve/1,13-0,37-361982,0.html?xtmc=cheminade&xtcr=22|access-date=18 March 2012}}</ref> He was charged of having received, through 3 associations, 1.2&nbsp;million francs from an elderly lady with [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref name="LM"/> An [[appellate court]] confirmed in 1996 the qualification of theft, but reduced the sentence to 9 months with suspension.<ref name="Libé">{{cite news|language=fr|title=Jacques Cheminade, l'ex-candidat à l'Elysée voit sa peine réduite|newspaper=Libération|date=17 January 1996|url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/0101169084-jacques-cheminade-l-ex-candidat-a-l-elysee-voit-sa-peine-reduite}}</ref> The judgement mentioned "conditioning" by "professional canvassers".<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Le POE, Jacques Cheminade et la réalité du combat politique en France|publisher=Solidarité et progrès|year=2010|url=http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/Le-POE-Jacques-Cheminade-et-la-realite-du-combat-politique-en-France_06351|access-date=18 March 2012}}</ref> The reduced sentence allowed Cheminade to benefit from an [[amnesty]] law.<ref name="Libé"/>

===1995: Presidential candidate===
In 1995, Cheminade obtained 556 endorsements from mayors,<ref name="Saint-Réguier">{{cite news|title=Qui est Jacques Cheminade, le candidat de l'espace?|newspaper=L'Express|last=Saint-Réguier|first=Diane|language=fr|date=9 March 2012|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/qui-est-jacques-cheminade-le-candidat-de-l-espace-qui-compare-hitler-et-obama_1091641.html|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> allowing him to run in [[1995 French presidential election|the presidential election]]. Eric Incyan and Sylvie Kaufman in ''Le Monde'' described the obtaining of these endorsements as the result of a "generalized phone harassment".<ref name="Inciyan">{{cite news|title=Jacques Cheminade derrière son rideau de fumée|last=Inciyan|first=Eric|author2=Kaufmann, Sylvie|newspaper=Le Monde|date=21 April 1995}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Hourquebie">{{cite news|title=Jacques Cheminade ou l'art de battre la campagne|language=fr|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Hourquebie|first=Daniel|date=17 April 1995}}</ref> 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 by Cheminade's party press with a foreword by Cheminade<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Jean Jaurès éducateur du travail humain|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|publisher=Agora Erasmus|url=http://www.agora-erasmus.be/Jean-Jaures-educateur-du-travail-humain_01936|access-date=25 March 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212148/http://www.agora-erasmus.be/Jean-Jaures-educateur-du-travail-humain_01936|url-status=dead}}</ref> (described as an absurd rambling by Roger-Pol Droit in ''Le Monde'';<ref>{{cite news|title=Jaurès entre lumière et ténèbres|last=Droit|first=Roger-Pol|language=fr|newspaper=Le Monde|date=29 July 1994|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=1423b22041104c53adf5984b3bbb88b467d86fccc33c2c5e|quote=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.}}</ref> 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 world.<ref name="Dely">{{cite news|language=fr|title=Cheminade ? Je me suis fait avoir|newspaper=Libération|last=Dely|first=Renaud|date=14 April 1995}}</ref> The mayors of [[Ayguetinte]], [[Bézues-Bajon]] and Saint-Justin said Cheminade's envoys had been the first ones to contact them.<ref name="Hourquebie"/> The mayor of Ayguetinte said he wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the political class.<ref name="Hourquebie"/> Other mayors commented on the insistence of Cheminade's emissaries : The mayor of [[Thoux]] said he finally accepted to be left in peace.<ref name="Hourquebie"/> The mayor of [[Planèzes]] that he was constantly called, at any hour, at home or at the office.<ref name="Dely"/> Three mayors from [[Creuse]] considered they had been "deceived" on Cheminade's program and political career.<ref name="el pais">{{cite news|language=es|title=El increíble que da credibilidad y que juega a ser payaso|newspaper=El Pais|date=20 April 1995|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1995/04/20/internacional/798328819_850215.html|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> The mayor of [[Saint-Junien-la-Bregère]] said he was for sorry to have signed for somebody "who does not seem to be very honest, though I don't have a proof".<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Les maires abusés par Cheminade|publisher=INA|year=1995|url=http://www.ina.fr/politique/partis-politiques/video/CAC95026216/les-maires-abuses-par-cheminade.fr.html|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|title=Polémique Cheminade|publisher=INA|year=1995|url=http://www.ina.fr/politique/partis-politiques/video/CAB95026043/polemique-cheminade.fr.html|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Cheminade replied they had been harassed by journalists who told them he was a crank and his party was a sect.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Cheminade|publisher=INA|url=http://www.ina.fr/politique/partis-politiques/video/CAB95026104/cheminade.fr.html|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>

His speeches, invoking the patronages of [[Jean Jaurès]] and [[Charles de Gaulle]],<ref>{{cite book|title=L'élection présidentielle de 1995|language=fr|last=Choffat|first=Thierry|publisher=Presses universitaires de Nancy|year=1997|isbn=9782864808640|pages=17, 20}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Profession de foi|year=1995|publisher=Cheminade2012|url=http://www.cheminade2012.fr/IMG/pdf/1995_Cheminade_ProfessionDeFoi.pdf|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-date=18 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418190839/http://www.cheminade2012.fr/IMG/pdf/1995_Cheminade_ProfessionDeFoi.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Cheminade obtained 0.27% of the votes.

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=fr|last=Chambaud|first=Cécile|newspaper=Le Monde|date=19 March 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=3e863d4be37d789304607a6fec047aa78ffcfbecb3b32b8a|access-date=15 March 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=fr|last=LaRouche|first=Lyndon|newspaper=Le Monde|date=23 April 1995|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/ARCHIVES/archives.cgi?ID=c54357db0aeedaa2cc0211a4f3b3c2aaeb42f0deaaeaa7a9|access-date=15 March 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'' 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.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|newspaper=Le Parisien|title=Trois maires se disent trompés par Jacques Cheminade|date=11 April 1995|last=Micoine|first=Didier}}</ref> Renaud Leblond and Loïc Stavidrès reported in ''L'Express'' Cheminade owned a {{convert|60|m2|adj=on}} apartment in Paris, earned 3,000 francs a month and benefited from the remains of a family inheritance.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Je vis avec 3,000 francs par mois|newspaper=L'Express|last=Leblond|first=Renaud|author2=Stavridès, Loïc|date=20 April 1995|url=http://memoiremikag.chez.com/images/annexe/a7-doc2.jpg|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Nevertheless, according to ''Le Monde'', Cheminade claimed to be the largest donator of his campaign.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=M. Cheminade a été condamné pour vol en 1992|newspaper=Le Monde|date=10 April 1995}}</ref>

===Constitutional Court ruling over campaign finance===

The 1995 presidential election was the first one for which the [[Constitutional Council of France|Constitutional Council]] had to appreciate the regularity of campaign accounts, in application of a law passed in January 1990.<ref name="Zarka">{{cite journal|title=Les comptes de campagne présidentielle et le Conseil constitutionnel|language=fr|last1=Zarka|first1=Jean-Claude|journal=Revue administrative|year=1996|volume=49|issue=289|pages=114–116|quote=Le candidat du parti ouvrier européen [...] fut financé après le scrutin par des donations substantielles émanant de personnes physiques|jstor=40770483}}</ref> The Council examined the campaign accounts with what Jean-Claude Zarka, a professor of constitutional law, called "obvious caution"<ref name="Zarka"/> and [[Pierre Moscovici]], the campaign treasurer of the socialist [[Lionel Jospin]], "eminent diplomacy".<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title="Une décision éminemment diplomatique". Pierre Moscovici (PS) évalue à 165 millions les dépenses de Chirac.|newspaper=Libération|date=13 October 1995|url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/0101156343-une-decision-eminemment-diplomatique-pierre-moscovici-ps-evalue-a-165-millions-les-depenses-de-chirac|access-date=24 March 2012}}</ref> The campaign accounts of 8 candidates were approved, some with modifications, but those of Jacques Cheminade were rejected. According to Zarka, Cheminade was "financed after the vote by substantial gifts from private persons".<ref name="Zarka"/> The ruling of the Council said 2.3&nbsp;million francs of private loans had to be qualified as gifts because of their relative importance in the accounts and the absence of interests.<ref name="CC">{{cite web|title=Décision Compte Cheminade 1995 du 11 octobre 1995|language=fr|publisher=Conseil constitutionnel|year=1995|quote=[Il] a bénéficié de sommes d'un montant total de 2 340 990 F, déclarées comme étant des prêts consentis à titre gratuit par des personnes physiques [...] Cette source de financement, à concurrence de 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 [...] Compte tenu de l'importance de ces ressources dans le financement de la campagne, l'absence de stipulation d'intérêts a, en l'espèce, constitué au profit du candidat un avantage qui doit être assimilé à un don.|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|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Moreover, 1.7&nbsp;million francs, "over a third of the total of his declared receipts", was contracted after the second round.<ref name="CC"/> Following the rejection of his accounts, Cheminade was deprived of the lump-sum reimbursement of his campaign expenses and required to reimburse a million francs he had received from the state at the start of the campaign.<ref name="Karachi">{{cite news|title=L'affaire Karachi, bonne surprise du candidat Cheminade|language=fr|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|date=2 December 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/12/02/l-affaire-karachi-bonne-surprise-du-candidat-cheminade_1447748_823448.html|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> In further observations, the Council recommended private loans to presidential candidates should be prohibited.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Observations du Conseil constitutionnel relatives à l'élection présidentielle des 23 avril et 7 mai 1995|publisher=Conseil constitutionnel|year=1995|url=http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/les-decisions/depuis-1958/decisions-par-date/1995/observations-cc-presidentielle-1995/decision-observations-cc-presidentielle-1995-du-08-decembre-1995.10640.html|access-date=24 March 2012}}</ref><ref>This prohibition was enacted by the [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsessionid=DD71CFCD0AFFD1154952F43B03DE6F9D.tpdjo04v_2?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000684037&idArticle=LEGIARTI000006527741&dateTexte=20120324&categorieLien=id#LEGIARTI000006527741 organic law n° 2001-100 of February 5, 2001].</ref> Notwithstanding, 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''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cheminade et son compte de campagne : le flou du Code civil|language=fr|newspaper=Le journal du dimanche|last=B.|first=B.|date=13 March 2012|url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Election-presidentielle-2012/Actualite/Cheminade-et-son-compte-de-campagne-annule-en-1995-fact-checking-494068/|access-date=26 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318090722/http://www.lejdd.fr/Election-presidentielle-2012/Actualite/Cheminade-et-son-compte-de-campagne-annule-en-1995-fact-checking-494068/|archive-date=18 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also 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.<ref name="Inrockuptibles">{{cite news|title=Campagnes de Chirac et de Balladur en 1995: souvenirs d'une arnaque|language=fr|newspaper=Les Inrockuptibles|last=Collombat|first=Benoît|author2=Servenay, David|date=23 February 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|access-date=17 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306214112/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|archive-date=6 March 2012}}</ref>

Cheminade appealed to the [[European Court of Justice]], but his appeal was rejected. The Court estimated "the patrimonial incidence of a procedure pertaining to the conditions of practice of a right of political nature does nor confer to it a civil nature" and "the decision of the Constitutional Council has not deprived the plaintiff of property in any amount of money but has only obliged the plaintiff to reimburse to the state a million francs because he did not meet the legal conditions to claim the contractual reimbursement of the campaign expenses".<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|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|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>

In November 2010, in the wake of an {{Interlanguage link|Affaire des frégates d'Arabie saoudite et des sous-marins du Pakistan{{!}}investigation|fr|3=Karachi affair}} on the financing of [[Édouard Balladur]]'s 1995 presidential campaign, Raphaëlle Bacqué and Pascale Robert-Diard wrote in ''Le Monde'' the Constitutional Council had hesitated to validate his campaign accounts, as they showed 10 million francs in receipts of unknown origin.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Et les comptes de campagne d'Edouard Balladur furent validés...|newspaper=Le Monde|last=Bacqué|first=Raphaëlle|author2=Robert-Diard, Pascale|date=26 November 2010|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/11/25/et-les-comptes-de-campagne-d-edouard-balladur-furent-valides_1444772_823448.html|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> This, according to ''Le Parisien'', was later confirmed 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=fr|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=1 December 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|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> According to ''Les Inrockuptibles'', Jacques Robert said: "In order to show that we were independent, we invalidated Jacques Cheminade, even though he had only committed minor errors".<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 name="Karachi"/>

===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).<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Cheminade est-il à la tête d'une secte ?|newspaper=Quoi ?|last=Boireau|first=Mathilde|date=9 March 2012|url=http://quoi.info/actualite-politique/2012/03/09/jacques-cheminade-est-il-a-la-tete-dune-secte-1129492/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310162429/http://quoi.info/actualite-politique/2012/03/09/jacques-cheminade-est-il-a-la-tete-dune-secte-1129492/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2012|access-date=16 March 2012}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Time To Destroy The Mythology of Bonapartism|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=18 October 1996|url=http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/napoleon.htm|access-date=16 March 2012}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|title=France: between decadence and hope|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=LaRouche|first=Lyndon|author-link=Lyndon LaRouche|date=28 November 1997|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1997/eirv24n48-19971128/eirv24n48-19971128_077-mitterrands_corrupt_legacy_again.pdf|access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref> Cheminade's own article claimed President Mitterrand 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Mitterrand's corrupt legacy against France's Fifth Republic|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|date=28 November 1997|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1997/eirv24n48-19971128/eirv24n48-19971128_077-mitterrands_corrupt_legacy_again.pdf|access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref>

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]] [and] a Eurasian Land-Bridge".<ref>{{cite news|title=France's elite opts for national suicide|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|url=https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1998/eirv25n18-19980501/eirv25n18-19980501_055-frances_elite_opts_for_national.pdf|access-date=16 March 2012}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Scandal, murder, power struggles target French republican system|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|date=27 February 1998|url=https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1998/eirv25n09-19980227/eirv25n09-19980227_043-scandal_murder_power_struggles_t.pdf|access-date=16 March 2012}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news|title=The role for France in global recovery|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|date=25 June 1999|url=https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1999/eirv26n26-19990625/eirv26n26-19990625_059-jacques_cheminade_the_role_for_f.pdf|access-date=16 March 2012}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|title=FDR and Jean Monnet: The Battle vs. British Imperial Methods Can Be Won|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=16 June 2000|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/cheminade_fdr_monnet_2724.html}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news|title=Concorde Crash Comes as France Bucks the British|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=11 August 2000|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2000/eirv27n31-20000811/eirv27n31-20000811_057-concorde_crash_comes_as_france_b.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=London goes Berserk against France|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Burdmann|first=Mark|date=18 August 2000|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2000/eirv27n32-20000818/eirv27n32-20000818_059-london_goes_berserk_against_fran.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

In 2000, Cheminade announced he would be a candidate in the [[2002 French presidential election|2002 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Briefly|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=20 October 2000|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2000/eirv27n41-20001020/eirv27n41-20001020.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> He did not succeed to reach the necessary 500 endorsements, gathering only 406 of them.<ref name="Saint-Réguier"/> He sued {{Interlanguage link|Nicolas Miguet|fr}}, another presidential candidate, for slander and was granted damages.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Petit (ré)actionnaire|last=Raulin|first=Nathalie|newspaper=Libération|date=15 April 2004|url=http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/0101485406-petit-re-actionnaire|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Right-Wing Slanderer of Cheminade is Guilty|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=10 October 2003|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/eirv30/eirv30n39.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607052859/http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/eirv30/eirv30n39.pdf|archive-date=7 June 2012}}</ref> Cheminade filed a complaint to the [[Conseil constitutionnel]], arguing he had been the subject of press attacks to deter mayors from endorsing him. The claim was rejected.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Décision Cheminade du 07 avril 2002|publisher=Conseil constitutionnel|year=2002|url=http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/les-decisions/depuis-1958/decisions-par-date/2002/cheminade/decision-cheminade-du-07-avril-2002.684.html|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

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]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Report on EIR Seminar: "What Can Be Done in the Face of The Financial Meltdown ?|publisher=Schiller Institute|date=5 November 2001|url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2001/berl_mainz/berlin_11_05_01.html|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> This was part of what LaRouche and Cheminade called a "new [[Bretton Woods system|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".<ref>{{cite news|title=The Mission of France. Beyond Iraq: War Avoidance Through Sovereign States' Mutual Development|last=Cheminade|first=Jacques|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=24 January 2003|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3003qatar_chemin.html|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

In 2004, Cheminade and Eric Sauzé, his party's candidate in the March 2004 [[Lyon]] county election were found guilty of slander against [[Dominique Perben]], the minister of Justice, for the comparison in pictures of [[Philippe Pétain]] shaking hands with [[Adolf Hitler]] in [[Montoire-sur-le-Loir]] and Perben recently doing the same with U.S. Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]]. 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 [the] leaflet".<ref>{{cite news|title=French Court Slams Cheminade for 'Slander'|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=22 October 2004|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31/eirv31n41.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> the judgement was confirmed in appeal in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=Perben contre Cheminade: 2-0 en appel|newspaper=20 minutes|date=4 March 2006|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/lyon/45619-Lyon-Perben-contre-Cheminade-2-0-en-appel.php|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

In the 2004 [[2004 European Parliament election in France|European election]], Cheminade headed list called ''Nouvelle solidarité'' in [[Île-de-France (region)|Île-de-France]], which obtained 0.11% of the votes.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Les résultats des élections|publisher=Ministère de l'Intérieur|year=2004|url=http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/resultats-elections/eur2004/007/index.html|access-date=18 May 2004|archive-date=21 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061121130351/http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/resultats-elections/eur2004/007/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2004, during the restructuring of the [[Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002)|Argentinian debt]], which laRouche compared to ""transform[ing] Argentina into another Auschwitz",<ref>{{cite news|title=Argentina vs. IMF: 'Test Issue' for U.S. Leaders|newspaper=Executive Intelligence review|last=Rush|first=Cynthia|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3107argentina_imf.html|access-date=March 17, 2012}}</ref> 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"<ref>{{cite news|title=Defend Argentina – Honor Lopez Portillo|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|last=Rush|first=Cynthia|date=5 March 2004|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31/eirv31n09.pdf|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref> or organizing a demonstration in front of the headquarters of [[Lazard]], the bank advising the Argentinian government.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=L'Argentine contre le FMI : Pour les droits inaliénables de l'Homme|publisher=Solidarité et progrès|year=2004|url=http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/L-Argentine-contre-le-FMI-Pour-les|access-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>

Cheminade opposed the European constitution proposed in the 2005 [[2005 French European Constitution referendum|referendum]], claiming it was a policy leading to fascism and to war.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cheminade Says 'No' to European Constitution|newspaper=Executive Intelligence Review|date=8 April 2005|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2005/2005_10-19/2005_10-19/2005-14/pdf/18-19_14_intfrance.pdf|access-date=18 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521083358/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2005/2005_10-19/2005_10-19/2005-14/pdf/18-19_14_intfrance.pdf|archive-date=21 May 2013}}</ref>

In November 2005, Cheminade was a panelist at the conference of ''Axis for Peace'' organized by the [[Voltaire network]] in Belgium.<ref>{{cite web|title=Panelists|publisher=Axis for Peace|year=2005|url=http://www.axisforpeace.net/rubrique41.html|access-date=16 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722042320/http://www.axisforpeace.net/rubrique41.html|archive-date=22 July 2012}}</ref>

In the 2007 French presidential race, he endorsed [[Ségolène Royal]].<ref>[http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=2746 Solidarité & Progrès – L’appel de Jacques Cheminade pour le vote en faveur de Ségolène Royal en France<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215940/http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=2746 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref>

===2012: Second presidential candidacy===
On 31 January 2012 Cheminade announced that he had obtained the necessary 500 endorsements from elected officials that are required for ballot status in [[2012 French presidential election|the presidential election]]. Cheminade ran 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."<ref name=FS>{{cite news|work=France Soir|title=Qui est Jacques Cheminade|url=http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/politique/qui-est-jacques-cheminade-179666.html|date=31 January 2012|access-date=31 January 2012|archive-date=7 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707015058/http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/politique/qui-est-jacques-cheminade-179666.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He obtained 89,000 votes (0.25% of the votes) nationwide.

===2017: Third presidential candidacy===

In the first round of voting for the [[2017 French presidential election]], Cheminade was in last place of 11 candidates, receiving 65,598 votes, or 0.18% of votes cast.

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* [http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2010/3730jacques_why_president.html Transcript] of an interview with Cheminade
* [http://www.cheminade2017.fr/ Cheminade for the 2017 presidential elections] (in French)
* [http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/ Solidarity and Progress] (in French)

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