About 80 foreign personalities, heads of state and government, former leaders like American Bill Clinton, and royal family members, will be present at the tribute to Jacques Chirac Monday, said Sunday the Elysee.
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Presidents of President Vladimir Putin, Italian presidents Sergio Mattarella and Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso, Georgian President Salome Zourabishvili, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hungarian Viktor Orban were announced on Saturday.
The king of Jordan also present
The King of Jordan, Abdallah, and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, will also attend the solemn service scheduled for Monday at 12 o'clock in the Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris, for the former head of the State deceased Thursday. The Elysee also announced Sunday evening the arrival of former President of the United States, Bill Clinton (1993-2001), and Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (2001-2014).
Among the former leaders of Jacques Chirac's time who will be present are also former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder or former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Emmanuel Macron will preside over the solemn service
On Friday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced their presence. Some will stay at the next luncheon at the Élysée.
Former French Presidents François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing will also participate in the solemn service chaired by Emmanuel Macron, in the presence of the Chirac family.
Monday will be a day of national mourning and a minute of silence will be observed at 3:00 pm in administrations and schools. Thousands of French have honored since Sunday the memory of the former head of state, who died at 86, a major player in political life for four decades, during a popular ceremony in the Invalides.