TOPSHOT - Outgoing Mayor of Bordeaux Alain Juppe reacts as he delivers a speech during a press conference in Bordeaux, on February 14, 2019 to announce the end of his mandate as mayor and his nomination at the French Constitutional Council (Conseil Constitutionel). - French former Prime Minister Alain Juppe is in the process of succeeding to Lionel Jospin on the Constitutional Council, where he will join Senators Jacques Mezard and Francois Pillet. (Photo by GEORGES GOBET / AFP)