Reactions and tributes are flowing and are not counted so much they are numerous on the part of the French population but also of all the leaders of the planet.
It must be said that Jacques Chirac had an extraordinary destiny. Deputy of Corrèze, Mayor of the city of Paris, Prime Minister and President of the French Republic from 1995 to 2007 before leaving public life, he is the man in hand tense in his country but also abroad.
Open to the world, we must remember that he is the first to invent the concept of organizing the Francophonie. In addition, this relaxed, uninhibited, warm and goodnatured President recognized, from an early age, non-Western civilizations and defended the primal arts, with the creation of the Musée des arts premiers Quai Branly in Paris in 2006.
Emmanuel Macron, current President of the French Republic during his televised address to pay homage to him declares « He was an extraordinary personality who has often made good
decisions ».
This is indeed the man who said no to the war in Iraq and who recognized the Palestinian people.
This has earned him a high popularity in the Arab world. Open to the world, he was committed to Europe but also to the world and particularly to the African continent.
Jacques Chirac was a lover of Africa, of his aestheticism, his people, his memory. Heir to General de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, a man of networks, he created close ties and friendship with
the leaders of this continent and protected the allied regimes of France. He allowed the cancellation of debts of these countries and developed the global fund for AIDS and malaria. This
endearing, benevolent man accompanied the evolutions of the continent in a new spirit. Jacques Chirac will remain in our memories for what he has done and defended with conviction.
Let’s not forget that it was he proclaimed that “the house burns” while talking about our planet in danger. Premonitory sentence and terrible news.
Christophe Giovannetti – President of the UNF, joins all the tributes paid to say to him: goodbye Mr. President.
