The former president of the European Commission, father of the euro and figure of the French left, Jacques Delors, died Wednesday at the age of 98, his daughter Martine Aubry announced to AFP.
“He died this morning (Wednesday) at his Paris home in his sleep,” declared the socialist mayor of Lille. Favorite in the polls, Jacques Delors dampened the hopes of the left by refusing to run in the 1995 presidential election, a spectacular renunciation on television in front of 13 million viewers.
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