This Wednesday, December 27, Jacques Delors died at the age of 98. Sad news announced by his daughter, Martine Aubry to AFP. “He died this morning (Wednesday) at his Parisian home in his sleep,” declared the French politician. In the columns of Pointon Wednesday November 3, 2021, Jacques Delors spoke of the two reasons why he had not not presented during the 1995 presidential election. He also took the opportunity to admit: “I have no regrets but I still ask myself questions. My journey from the point of view of French political life is not famous…” Despite his doubts, the former president of the European Commission has always been a proud man when it comes to private life. Father of Martine Aubry, the Socialist supported his daughter’s political career, notably in the 2011 primary against François Hollande.
Candidate for the 2011 citizen primaryMartine Aubry was able to count on the kind words of her father: “I told him that if I can help out I’ll come, because I consider that my daughter is the best and that we must support her“, he declared on CNews, then still called I-Télé. A primary ultimately won by François Hollande, future tenant of the Élysée. Despite this unfailing support during important events, Jacques Delors was never an expressive father, according to the former Minister of Labor. When she was received at the ENA in 1972, the reaction of the former president of the European Commission remained cold: “For him, it was normal. It was the least I could do, considering the background I came from. He never told me he was proud of me.”she confided in the columns of World. However, during his candidacy for the citizen primary, Jacques Delors made a beautiful statement to his daughter during his appearance on the show Info Questionsin 2011 : “Her father and mother love her madly, her father and mother educated her and the rest, she is free and we respect her choices.”
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Private life on one side, political career on the other
Martine Aubry and Jacques Delors kept a good relationship over the years despite a few clashes. United, the two political figures nevertheless took care never to “mix public and private” as Cécile Amar states in her book The man who didn’t want to be kingpublished in 2016. But the 96-year-old man has always admired his daughter’s choices: “He likes his way of doing politics”, we can also read in the work. In reality, the former Minister of Employment in the Jospin government always felt closer to her mother, Marie Delors. “She has the conceptual side of her father, but the same cheerfulness, the same chatter, the same sense of the good word as his mother“a relative told our colleagues in 2011 World.
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