Hollande este noul președinte al Franței. Hollande becomes first socialist French leader for 17 years
François Hollande has become the new President of France.In a powerful speech to the country he thanked everyone who voted and called the 6th of May a new beginning.
He pledged that everyone in France will be treated equally and said he will be the leader to unite the entire country and said his mission is to change the public, France and beyond.He was addressing his supporters in the quiet, rural French town of Tulle in Correze, for which he is the member of parliament.
“I am sure that in other European countries, this has been a relief, a hope, that at last the idea of ‘austerity’ is not an inevitability,” he told them. “That mission now falls to me…and it is what I will tell our European partners, starting with Germany”An official exit poll, published at exactly 20:00 local time, credited Hollande with 52.5% of the vote, with Sarkozy on 47.5%.Hollande will become France’s first socialist president since François Mitterand, who left office 17 years ago. Sarkozy meanwhile becomes the first president to be voted out after just one term since Valérie Giscard d’Estaing was beaten by Mitterand in 1981.
The outgoing president was quick to concede defeat. At his campaign headquarters in Paris barely 20 minutes after the exit poll was issued, he told his supporters that he had already telephoned Hollande to wish him luck.“François Hollande is the President of France and he must be respected,” he said, “I bear the full responsibility for this defeat.”Jubilant socialist supporters celebrated outside their party headquarters in Paris’ Bastille square.
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