After the announcement of the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on Wednesday evening, many politicians reacted to the death of the former President of the Republic at the age of 94.
In the first place, those in charge of today, many of whom claim to be centrally involved, salute his reforming “audacity” of France in the 1970s.
Since Wednesday evening and the announcement of the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, tributes have been increasing towards the former President of the Republic, who died at the age of 94 as a result of the coronavirus .
If many centrists praise its "audacity" and its capacity for "reform" in France in the 1970s, others, who do not claim to be part of its political movement, prefer to insist on the markers of its five-year term, such as lowering from the age of majority to 18 or the legalization of Voluntary Termination of pregnancy.
A minute of silence was also observed in the National Assembly.
The minute of silence at the National Assembly
The National Assembly observed a minute of silence in tribute to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
The former President of the Republic, who ruled France from 1974 to 1981, died on Wednesday, December 2. # DirectANpic.twitter.com / OGAiKXSMUI
- LCP (@LCP) December 2, 2020
The reactions of the political class
Today our country is losing a statesman who made the choice of opening up to the world and who thought that Europe was the condition for France to be greater.
I offer my most sincere condolences and gratitude to his wife and children.
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- François Hollande (@fhollande) December 2, 2020
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- Nicolas Sarkozy (@NicolasSarkozy) December 2, 2020
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The European ideal loses one of its founders
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V. Giscard d'Estaing will remain the President of modernity and reform.
He raised our hopes, he created our admiration.
Young people and women have found with him a new place in the Republic.
French Democracy has asserted itself as European ... With a heavy heart!
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin (@jpraffarin) December 2, 2020
It is with emotion that I learn of the death of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
The European ideal loses one of its founders, France, a President who brought it modernity and audacity: majority at 18, legalization of abortion ...
Respectfully, in its memory.
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- Richard Ferrand (@RichardFerrand) December 2, 2020
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He had all the gifts
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Condolences to the relatives of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
President of a France in crisis, he was the architect of new public freedoms and an ardent supporter of technological progress.
In 2018, he confessed that his biggest mistake was to introduce family reunification.
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- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) December 2, 2020
François Bayrou (president of the Modem):
"Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had all the gifts. He dominated almost naturally by his presence, his distinction, his language, the vivacity of his intelligence and the force of his intuitions. For entire generations, especially for those who got involved with him in their youth, he breathed a great wind of modernity on French society and gave birth to an immense hope of going beyond and coming together. "
Today our country is losing a statesman who made the choice of opening up to the world and who thought that Europe was the condition for France to be greater.
I offer my most sincere condolences and gratitude to his wife and children.
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- François Hollande (@fhollande) December 2, 2020
Tribute to President #Giscard d'Estaing who will have undoubtedly left his mark on the Fifth Republic.
He worked with conviction and determination to modernize our society.
Affectionate testimony to Mme Giscard d'Estaing and her children.
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- Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) December 2, 2020
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For Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Europe should be a French ambition and France a modern nation.
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- Michel Barnier (@MichelBarnier) December 2, 2020
Rachida Dati, mayor LR of the 7th arrondissement of Paris:
"Commitment in favor of Europe, women's rights, youth rights, always keeping in mind this 'certain idea of France' which we so miss today 'hui: it was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. "
"In these difficult times, where evil lurks and strikes in the world, I hope that Providence will watch over France, for her happiness, for her good and for her greatness."
It's our turn to say "goodbye" to President #VGE, the one who brought France into the modern era.
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- Damien Abad (@damienabad) December 2, 2020
Christian Estrosi, LR mayor of Nice, on Twitter:
"Goodbye, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Resolutely close to the French, whose destinies he presided over from 1974 to 1981, no one can deny, whatever his political convictions, that 'he will have helped shape the Fifth Republic. "
Mr. Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who presided over France in very difficult times, will remain as a very great player in the construction of the European Union and a balanced international order, while preserving the interests of our country.
- Jacques Attali (@jattali) December 2, 2020