Marie-France Garaud, figure of the right, has died

From Georges Pompidou to Jacques Chirac, Marie-France Garaud left her mark on French political life in the 1970s. The politician began her career by studying law in Poitiers (Vienna). She died on Wednesday May 22 at the age of 90. She was one of the most influential women of the Fifth Republic. Marie-France Garaud, advisor to Georges Pompidou, but also the éminence grise of Jacques Chirac, exercising a determining influence during his political rise in the 1970s. Often in the shadows, Marie-France Garaud appears on the front of the stage in running in the presidential election of 1981. She wanted to defend a moral rearmament of the West and attacked Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the outgoing president.

After a bitter failure with 1.32% of the vote, Marie-France Garaud resurfaced in 1992 against the Maastricht Treaty with Charles Pasqua, Philippe Seguin and Philippe de Villiers. A European MP from 1999 to 2004, she has since been increasingly rare in the media, despite a few interventions to display her sovereignist opinions, then in an interview with Le Figaro, at the end of April 2017, to support Marine Le Pen and call on France to leave the European Union.