Many political figures gathered at the National Assembly on Wednesday morning, around Richard Ferrand, the President of the National Assembly, and Claude Chirac, for a tribute to the former President of the Republic Jacques Chirac, who died in the last year.
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Jacques Chirac now has a plaque in his name in the National Assembly, almost a year to the day after his disappearance, September 26, 2019. The ceremony took place Wednesday at 11 am, in the hemicycle.
Many personalities were present, including his daughter Claude Chirac, to pay this last tribute to the former head of state.
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"From dissolution to electoral reversal"
On the benches, many elected officials from the right but also from the left, such as Alain Juppé, François Baroin, Edouard Philippe, Jean-François Copé or even Anne Hidalgo, could be seen.
"For more than half a century, it has been part of our political life and, so to speak, punctuated it," said Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly.
"With him, we experienced the Republic in great strides, go-getter, greedy, without complex, which swirled from rants to theatrics, from dissolution to electoral reversal."
After a speech retracing the political career of Jacques Chirac, Richard Ferrand unveiled the plaque affixed to seat 99, which the former member of Corrèze occupied from 1988 to 1995, before his accession to the presidency of the Republic.
"Jacques Chirac, it was France in its greatness"
"There is a nostalgia for Jacques Chirac. Everyone has been, is or will be Jacques Chirac, because Jacques Chirac was France in its greatness, it was France in its simplicity and complexity. Everyone can recognize oneself in the generosity that Jacques Chirac had, "said at the microphone of Europe 1 Hugues Renson, the former collaborator of the president.
After this tribute at the Palais Bourbon, a remembrance mass must be pronounced Friday evening in the Saint-Gervais church in Paris.