underneath authorized and media strain, Jack Lang compelled to “propose” his resignation from the Arab World Institute | EUROtoday

The Elysée took notice of the choice, with out some other type of remark. Jack Lang, the emblematic president of the Arab World Institute (IMA) since 2013, resigned on Saturday February 7, after the opening of an investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office focusing on his hyperlinks with Jeffrey Epstein, the intercourse prison whom Mr. Lang met earlier than his suicide in detention in 2019.

Rather than undergo the affront of an interview on the Quai d’Orsay, the place he was summoned, Sunday February 8, to elucidate his relationship with the American businessman, François Mitterrand’s former minister of tradition most popular to take the lead, in a letter despatched late Saturday afternoon. “ In order to preserve the Institute of the Arab World and its exemplary work, and to be able to calmly challenge all the accusations that assail me, I propose to resign at the next extraordinary board of directors, which will also be able to choose my successor in order to avoid any break in continuity.”said Jack Lang.

The fourth term of the deposed president was in principle due to end at the end of December 2026, but he is therefore forced, at more than 86 years old, to hasten his departure. The decision was barely known, Jean-Noël Barrot, the head of French diplomacy, immediately launched the procedure to appoint his successor. Having just returned from Beirut, he requested the convening of the board of directors “within seven days”to be able to designate “an interim president”. The concept is to not delay to make sure the transition. The identify of the previous Director General of UNESCO from 2017 to 2025, Audrey Azoulay, beforehand Minister of Culture underneath François Hollande, is notably cited.

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