Former French president Jacques Chirac, a notable critic of the Iraq War, is dead, according to multiple reports, citing family members. He was 86.
Chirac’s son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux confirmed his death in a statement to The Associated Press where he said he died Thursday “peacefully, among his loved one.”
The family did not provide a cause of death, although Chirac reportedly has had health issues since leaving the presidency in 2007.
Long the standard-bearer of France's conservative right and a mayor of Paris for nearly two decades, Chirac was nicknamed "Le Bulldozer" early in his career due to his determination and ambition.
He began his two terms as president in 1995, serving as the consummate global diplomat, but failing to reform the economy or defuse tensions between police and minority youths that exploded into riots across France in 2005.
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Chirac was the first French leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2019-09-26 10:11:05Z
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