He had said that he was renouncing political life.
This decision was both mature and impulsive.
In his image somehow.
True to his word, he refused to lead lists in the senatorial, as in the regional, preferring to join the consulting firm in communication Tilder and accept the voluntary presidency of the association Solidarité-Défense, committed to soldiers injured in operation.
And then came this phone call from the Élysée.
Sixty years after the end of the Algerian war, Emmanuel Macron, who had asked the harkis for
"pardon"
on behalf of France for their
"tragedy"
and promised
"reparation",
had just set up a
"national commission independent”
of recognition and reparation of damages suffered by harkis and other people repatriated from Algeria.
And he wanted him to take the presidency.
No more no less.
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