Outgoing French PM Raffarin attends a news conference at at his offices at Matignon in Paris.
Outgoing French Prime Minister attends a news conference at his offices at Matignon in Paris May 31, 2005. French President Chirac named loyalist Dominique de Villepin as his new Prime Minister on Tuesday in a shake-up of the government following his crushing defeat over the European Union's constitution. REUTERS/Emmanuel Fradin EF/ABP/VP