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Aliyekuwa Rais wa zamani wa Ufaransa Valery Giscard d'Estaing amefariki dunia akiwa na umri wa miaka 94,baada ya kuugua homa inayosababishwa na Virusi vya Corona. Rais huyu aliiongoza nchi ya Ufaransa kutoka mwaka 1974 Hadi mwaka 1981.
Valery amefariki nyumbani kwake na taarifa zinasema kuwa Rais huyo alilazwa hospitalini mnamo mwezi Septemba baada ya kupata tatizo la Upumuaji na alitoka na kurudishwa tena katikati ya mwezi Novemba.
ZAIDI SOMA
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, France's president from 1974 to 1981, has died at the age of 94.
He died surrounded by his family at his estate in central France, the AFP news agency reported.
A centre-right, pro-Europe politician, Giscard d'Estaing also liberalised laws on divorce, abortion and contraception during his seven years in power.
Long career in politics
In later life, Giscard d'Estaing liked to portray himself as the grand old man of French politics.As one of France's youngest presidents, he had a longer career in politics after he left high office than he had enjoyed on his way to the Elysee Palace.
He was seen by many as arrogant and aloof; his presidential popularity was short-lived and he was eventually squeezed out of office by a strengthening of opposition from both the left and the right.
He was also caught up in a scandal surrounding his support for a corrupt African dictator.
Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing was born on 2 February 1926 in Koblenz, in what was then French-occupied Germany.
His father was a civil servant who worked for the French occupying forces, while his mother was descended from King Louis XV of France via one of his mistresses.
Giscard d'Estaing's education was disrupted by World War Two. He was just a teenager when he joined a French resistance group in occupied Paris before enlisting in a tank battalion in 1944, earning the Croix de Guerre in the last months of the war.
He worked for a while as a teacher in Montreal before graduating from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration and joining the tax and revenue service.
In 1955 he spent some time on the staff of prime minister Edgar Faure before winning the seat of Puy-de Dome in the National Assembly, the area from which his mother's family came.
