67:, and this influenced him to leave the post. He returned to work for the Metalworkers' Federation, becoming federal secretary in 1979, and winning election as general secretary in 1988. From 1989, he served on the executive of the CGT, but he retired from all his posts in 1991, after being diagnosed with cancer, and died a few days later.
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