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En d'autres mots, nous nous rencontrerions à 10 heures, élirions les membres du Bureau, suspendrions la séance pour des consultations et reviendrions à 11 heures.
In other words, we would meet at 10, hold elections for the members of the Bureau, break for consultations and then come back at 11.
Nous avons décidé que nous élirions les trois imams les plus respectés, et que ces imams se succéderaient, qu'ils alterneraient pour réciter la prière du vendredi.
And we decided that we would elect the three most respected imams, and those imams would take turns, they would rotate who would say Friday prayer.
Si quelqu'un m'avait alors dit qu'un jour nous élirions à la présidence des gens comme Fernando Henrique Cardoso puis Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cela aurait sonné comme un vœu pieux.
If someone had told me then that some day we would elect to the presidency people like Fernando Henrique Cardoso and then Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, it would have sounded like wishful thinking.
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