[1][2] He joined the French Section of the Workers' International and later the Socialist Party.

[1] He denounced the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française for being too monopolistic and thus a threat to democracy, and called for a plurality of radio and television media.

[1] On 13 February 1979, he sent an open letter to Jean François-Poncet (1928–2012), the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to ask him to call for a release of French citizens who were kidnapped in Algeria shortly after the Évian Accords of 1962.

[1] Moreover, he voted in favour of lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 in 1974, the legalization of abortion in 1975, and a reform to facilitate divorce, also in 1975.

[1] Even though he supported Gaston Defferre (1910–1986), he voted for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974.