31.   Former socialist minister Bernard Tapie resigned his French parliamentary seat on Tuesday, parliament speaker Philippe Seguin announced.

32.   Former Socialist minister, Jose Barrionuevo, provoked a scandal among miltants when he subsequently announced his candidacy for elections.

33.   He is a former socialist minister for humanitarian action.

34.   It was also signed by former socialist ministers Martine Aubry and Bernard Kouchner, as well as Elisabeth Guigou, Jean-Noel Jeanneney and Jean-Pierre Sueur.

35.   A former socialist minister, Tapie is a populist maverick who loves to debunk what he has always called the stuffed shirts of the French establishment.

36.   Another former socialist minister, Alain Van der Biest, is one of six men currently in custody on charges of involvement in the assassination of Cools.

37.   Attitudes towards the Radical Energy movement of the populist businessman and former Socialist minister Bernard Tapie are deeply divided.

38.   Former Socialist interior minister Jose Luis Corcuera has also been ordered to appear as a witness in the Lasa and Zabala inquiry.

39.   Former socialist minister Georgina Dufoix was charged Tuesday with poisoning in connection with a scandal involving AIDS-tainted blood.

40.   Former socialist minister Georgina Dufoix was charged Tuesday with poisoning over a scandal involving AIDS-tainted blood which killed hundreds of French haemophiliacs.