Francois Hollande
Francois Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande; born 12 August 1954) is the President of the French Republic and Co-Prince of Andorra, having been elected to the position in 2012. Hollande was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, the mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, and the President of the Corrèze General Council from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also served in the National Assembly of France twice for the department of Corrèze's 1st Constituency...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 August 1954
CityRouen, France
CountryFrance
We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.
My adversary is the world of finance.
I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
I am the president of the youth of France.
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.
We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'
During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.