President | President of the United States | General Electric | General | General Motors | Attorney General | General Hospital | Vice President of the United States | president | Brigadier General | Vice President | Second Vatican Council | Governor General of Canada | Governor-General | World Boxing Council | United States National Research Council | National Research Council | Massachusetts General Hospital | Privy Council of the United Kingdom | general | United States Attorney General | British Council | general election | General Mills | brigadier general | Brigadier general (United States) | General Dynamics | Governor General | Council of Trent | Council of Europe |
This rule was more or less upheld by Jacques Chirac during the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin for the 2002-2007 term, with a few notable exceptions (Jean-François Copé was mayor of Meaux, Nicolas Sarkozy was President of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council); for instance, Philippe Douste-Blazy had to step down from the Toulouse mayorship upon joining the government.