Former president of the French republicand European parliamentarianValéry Giscard d’Estaing died of Covid – as confirmed by his family in the evening – Wednesday at the age of 94. The French radio reported it. EHe was elected in 1974 and remained at the Elysée until 1981. In recent days he had been hospitalized.
Giscard D’Estaing he became president after the death of Georges Pompidou, of whom he had been minister. Candidate for the highest office of the state, broke away from the Gaullist party, of which he had always been a part, proclaiming himself as the representative of the liberal area, followed in this choice by Jacques Chirac (who will be its prime minister and, in turn, head of state). The youngest president of the Fifth Republic when he was elected in 1974, he had made one of his last public appearances on September 30, 2019, during the funeral in Paris of another president, Chirac.
He tried to lead France towards a liberalization of the economy and society after years of Gaullist conservatism.
In the ballot he narrowly defeated the Socialists as a candidate Franois Mitterrand. Which to beat him in 1981. A convinced Europeanist, under his mandate he gave impetus to the birth of new community institutions, first of all the continental parliament elected by universal suffrage.
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