French Presidential Inauguration

:00:17. > :00:25.Hello, welcome to viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News this

:00:26. > :00:28.sworn in as the new President of sworn in as the new President of

:00:29. > :00:34.France, following his election victory last weekend. He secured 65%

:00:35. > :00:39.of the vote against Marine Le Pen. His term of office begins with a 21

:00:40. > :00:42.gun salute at the Elysee Palace. Followed by the official handover

:00:43. > :00:49.from his predecessor, Francois Hollande. That show you the scene

:00:50. > :00:59.live as the preparations are well underway. Emmanuel Macron will be

:01:00. > :01:04.sworn in as the next president of France. A damp, drizzly morning in

:01:05. > :01:10.central Paris as you can see. Many of Macron's supporters already there

:01:11. > :01:15.out on the streets. The man who was about to become France's new

:01:16. > :01:20.president, officially to be inaugurated, not yet 40 years old.

:01:21. > :01:24.Never even contested an election before this year. It really has been

:01:25. > :01:33.an astonishing year in French politics. Emmanuel Macron, the

:01:34. > :01:42.young, fresh phrased, Road business, ardent European. About to be

:01:43. > :01:48.inaugurated -- pro business. He trounced his rivals in the

:01:49. > :01:55.elections, a resounding vote in support of a man who only set up his

:01:56. > :02:02.En Marche party about a year ago. We are already hearing, by the way,

:02:03. > :02:10.just you know, -- just to let you know, that we will expect him to

:02:11. > :02:14.appoint his Prime Minister to morrow. We have heard that in the

:02:15. > :02:17.last few minutes. The Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow and the

:02:18. > :02:23.government will be formed on Tuesday. That is what sources close

:02:24. > :02:27.to Emmanuel Macron are telling us. That is the scene there in central

:02:28. > :02:31.Paris, as we await the formalities of the inauguration and, of course,

:02:32. > :02:37.the French do these things with wonderful and grandeur and let's go

:02:38. > :02:43.to my colleague who was there watching it all unfold. A rather

:02:44. > :02:48.drizzly morning there in Paris, we can tell from your umbrella? Yes,

:02:49. > :02:51.the pomp and grandeur is currently being rained on rather heavily. It

:02:52. > :02:58.is the start of the last few minutes. It has been security

:02:59. > :03:01.lockdown here. There are hundreds of police, journalists, all along this

:03:02. > :03:06.avenue. The satellite trucks from all over the world, and you can see

:03:07. > :03:12.just behind me, just behind of the main gate -- in front of the main

:03:13. > :03:18.gate of the palace, a crowd is gathering. We have seen his wife's

:03:19. > :03:26.arising out of the car. The red carpet is rolled out in the

:03:27. > :03:31.courtyard. The journalist and dignitaries are there and they wait

:03:32. > :03:36.for the ceremony now. First, Emmanuel Macron will have a private

:03:37. > :03:40.meeting with the outgoing president, Francois Hollande. That meeting has

:03:41. > :03:46.no cameras, it is the transfer of power. The formal handover during

:03:47. > :03:50.which Emmanuel Macron will be given the nuclear code. That is all part

:03:51. > :03:55.of the transition of power. Then they will emerge, the former,

:03:56. > :03:59.outgoing president, Francois Hollande, will leave the building.

:04:00. > :04:04.He will leave the Elysee Palace for the last time. After that, there

:04:05. > :04:09.will be the formal inauguration of Emmanuel Macron. He will become

:04:10. > :04:14.president of France. It is extremely formal, a familiar sight for the

:04:15. > :04:20.French over the generations, what hasn't been conventional of course,

:04:21. > :04:24.is the arrival to this position of Emmanuel Macron, after just 13

:04:25. > :04:28.months in charge of his En Marche political movement. Last April was

:04:29. > :04:32.when he quit his job and decided to stand down as an unelected economy

:04:33. > :04:36.minister in the government of Francois Hollande, the outgoing

:04:37. > :04:41.president, to form this En Marche centrist movement taking policies

:04:42. > :04:48.from left and right and it was very soon after that but he declared his

:04:49. > :04:51.ambition -- soon after that he declared his ambition to run. Many

:04:52. > :04:55.say it wasn't skill but also like that got him. It was really the most

:04:56. > :05:04.opportune to political moment with the downfall, financial

:05:05. > :05:07.mismanagement scandal, and the Socialist party, the dominant force,

:05:08. > :05:12.choosing a candidate for President election which was from the far left

:05:13. > :05:17.and did not attract mainstream support. Let's talk about this some

:05:18. > :05:23.more with a commentator and journalist here in Paris.

:05:24. > :05:31.How France come to terms with how sudden this arrival to power is? I

:05:32. > :05:35.think it took an awful lot of people by surprise. Somebody who came from

:05:36. > :05:39.absolute obscurity and managed to rise to power and ethically secure

:05:40. > :05:46.one of the most powerful executive positions on earth and Emmanuel

:05:47. > :05:51.Macron one in the most convincing circumstances possible as well. I am

:05:52. > :05:56.wondering if this may indeed be the arrival of Emmanuel Macron himself.

:05:57. > :06:03.Given the amount of police motorcyclists. There we are. This is

:06:04. > :06:16.the moment Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Elysee Palace. A big cheer

:06:17. > :06:19.from the crowd there. His wife is already inside, she has made the

:06:20. > :06:27.journey along the red carpet but Macron supporters waving the French

:06:28. > :06:34.flag as he arrives for this enormous day. Before he has even reached the

:06:35. > :06:42.age of 40. Yes, indeed. You have talked us through... It is actually,

:06:43. > :06:49.Francois Hollande is waiting. The two will have the meeting.

:06:50. > :06:52.You have doctors through the handover of power, then will follow

:06:53. > :06:57.the official inauguration that will happen at the ballroom of the Elysee

:06:58. > :07:03.Palace, but on the previous Republic, it has happened at

:07:04. > :07:10.Versailles effectively and Emmanuel Macron will be accompanied by senior

:07:11. > :07:13.officials, including the Prime Minister, and the presidents of both

:07:14. > :07:20.chambers of parliament, the lower house and indeed the Senate. And

:07:21. > :07:24.interestingly a solemn march will be played, Emmanuel Macron is a proper

:07:25. > :07:31.music but then he will put some thought into a choice of his musical

:07:32. > :07:35.piece. The ceremony, the actual ceremony will take place then.

:07:36. > :07:41.Emmanuel Macron has got out of the car and is making his way along the

:07:42. > :07:54.red carpet into the Elysee Palace. For the handover of power.

:07:55. > :08:02.Walking towards the outgoing president, Francois Hollande. Seen

:08:03. > :08:06.as the protege of a manual Macron, giving him his break in politics,

:08:07. > :08:12.putting him first as an adviser and then as a economy minister,

:08:13. > :08:18.unelected economy Minister in the socialist government. So very

:08:19. > :08:24.symbolic day, this relationship between the two men, complicated

:08:25. > :08:36.one, resulting in this literal handover of power from one man to

:08:37. > :08:41.the other. Well, there you see the grandeur inside the Elysee Palace as

:08:42. > :08:47.the two men walk up the stairs, the outgoing president Francois Hollande

:08:48. > :08:55.and the incoming President Emmanuel Macron. And we will would just

:08:56. > :09:02.hearing their the formal handover of power, which includes Mr Macron

:09:03. > :09:14.being given the French nuclear codes there. We were seeing Francois

:09:15. > :09:16.Hollande, who, in some ways has been seen by many political commentators

:09:17. > :09:23.in France as a political failure, he did not run in this election but

:09:24. > :09:34.Macron was his economy Minister between the years 2014 and 2016, in

:09:35. > :09:39.some ways Mr Hull's protege and now Francois Hollande is handing power

:09:40. > :09:44.literally inside the Elysee Palace. -- Mr Hollande's protege. As the

:09:45. > :09:50.band and the music begins. And our correspondent Hugh Schofield

:09:51. > :10:02.joins us from Paris. It really is an extraordinary

:10:03. > :10:10.political moment, this, isn't it, for France? This young man, he was

:10:11. > :10:13.not emerged from nowhere, he had been economy Minister, setting up

:10:14. > :10:19.his own party only a year ago and now president. Yes, and what it

:10:20. > :10:26.makes me reflect on how brilliantly the French education system can be

:10:27. > :10:29.when it sort of six to pick out brilliant individuals and promote

:10:30. > :10:35.them through the ranks because he is, in a way, the classic product of

:10:36. > :10:39.an egalitarian education system. The problem is it only works in some

:10:40. > :10:42.cases, it does work absolutely superbly. He came from a

:10:43. > :10:48.middle-class background in the Providence but his audience was

:10:49. > :10:52.spotted by people at school, in fact, at a religious school, private

:10:53. > :10:58.school. He then got selected and pushed through the regular elite

:10:59. > :11:02.educational, other educational system to join the ranks of the

:11:03. > :11:08.administrative elite of the country and from there, as we know, with his

:11:09. > :11:12.eye on power and his eye on his own destiny, because I think he's a man

:11:13. > :11:17.who really does believe in his own destiny, he did what he has done.

:11:18. > :11:19.And it is a remarkable achievement which one has two hand to him. I

:11:20. > :11:24.think the other interesting thing today about today which you have all

:11:25. > :11:28.alluded to is this relationship with Francois Hollande and we have seen

:11:29. > :11:32.in the last week, a slight tension between the two men because on the

:11:33. > :11:37.one hand, Francois Hollande is quite clearly very eager to sort of up the

:11:38. > :11:41.signal that his presidency was not a disaster because look, someone from

:11:42. > :11:47.my presidency is continuing and is carrying on, has taken on the

:11:48. > :11:53.mantle. What I set out to do goes on, kind of thing. But of course

:11:54. > :11:56.Emmanuel Macron find that legacy slightly irksome. Much though I

:11:57. > :12:00.think he likes Francois Hollande and certainly owes a lot, he does want

:12:01. > :12:04.to keep his distance from Francois Hollande, in particular in the light

:12:05. > :12:10.of the upcoming parliamentary elections, he does not want to be

:12:11. > :12:16.seen to be the anointed successor. Particularly we saw it last week

:12:17. > :12:21.about ceremony at Arc de Triomphe after the election, Francois

:12:22. > :12:26.Hollande bearing on the clock on the back, my spiritual son as it were,

:12:27. > :12:31.Emmanuel Macron saying thank you, yes, I would rather be my own man

:12:32. > :12:35.now. But, of course, from today it is the power skimpily, manual Macron

:12:36. > :12:41.is the president. Francois Hollande will be the man who is forgotten. It

:12:42. > :12:48.in US Marconi 's name as a result of what has been regarded as a failed

:12:49. > :12:54.presidency. The sermon today which is lavishly beautiful to watch,, the

:12:55. > :13:01.hard work begins straight afterwards. He has to form a

:13:02. > :13:04.government very quickly, appointed Prinosil, which might be as soon as

:13:05. > :13:10.tomorrow, we are hearing, he has go to be meeting Angela Merkel very

:13:11. > :13:19.seen to talk about Europe. We have this error may now, -- ceremony. A

:13:20. > :13:22.meeting behind closed doors, security operations will be

:13:23. > :13:26.discussed, things that we do not know about, that the president needs

:13:27. > :13:33.to handle to the other, the codes for the nuclear. And then will be

:13:34. > :13:37.the speech, the ceremony of anointing him as Grand Master of the

:13:38. > :13:41.order of the Legion of honour, that goes with all presidents, deep

:13:42. > :13:49.recession on Champs-Elysee and then we will get down to business. The

:13:50. > :13:54.name of the Prime Minister either today or tomorrow. Will this be a

:13:55. > :13:58.character of the political right? That is what is the big question

:13:59. > :14:02.because in drawing up of his list of candidates for the Parliamentary

:14:03. > :14:07.elections, quite clearly there is a bias in that list towards the left

:14:08. > :14:12.and as Macron was, someone who is above that old divide, it is quite

:14:13. > :14:15.important to him to redress that and I think his inclination is to

:14:16. > :14:21.appoint someone who is from the centre-right. Maybe do some from the

:14:22. > :14:25.opposition, someone who is on the centuries wing of that party,

:14:26. > :14:33.Republicans, he might be Macron compatible. That would be his ideal,

:14:34. > :14:38.various names circulating. The former mayor of Strasberg, these are

:14:39. > :14:42.the kind of people, a centrist MEP, these are the names that are

:14:43. > :14:46.circulating at the moment. It will be very important because it was

:14:47. > :14:53.then that the signal as to how he conceives of his party and how, what

:14:54. > :14:59.hopes the house for turning that into a majority in parliament. Then

:15:00. > :15:02.of course this is this visit tomorrow to Germany. He had said

:15:03. > :15:08.before that his first trip abroad would be to visit serving military

:15:09. > :15:13.men and women abroad, but it seems that has been put off and the trip

:15:14. > :15:20.to Germany will come first which will be tomorrow. That is vital, of

:15:21. > :15:24.course. Hollande went to see Merkel on the day of his inauguration and

:15:25. > :15:29.on that plane, by the way, was a young Emmanuel Macron he was his

:15:30. > :15:35.adviser. The plane got hit by lightning coincidently. Another sign

:15:36. > :15:38.of the start of the Hollande presidency. It is Macron who will go

:15:39. > :15:44.tomorrow. The relationship with Merkel is good to be fascinating to

:15:45. > :15:48.watch because we have arriving now somebody who is incredibly

:15:49. > :15:53.pro-European, who really wants to get back the Franco Germany

:15:54. > :16:00.relationship, the golden years, to try and rebuild that element of

:16:01. > :16:05.trust. His deal, his budding rugby I will bring France down the road of

:16:06. > :16:13.reform, economic reform, if you, Germany, bring Germany down the road

:16:14. > :16:17.of, for example, making the desert of all European countries neutralise

:16:18. > :16:22.and so on, that way of building Europe from the top down. That is

:16:23. > :16:28.the bargain he is going to want to bring to Angela Merkel tomorrow. It

:16:29. > :16:32.is a very important meeting. Whew, just the with us because we are

:16:33. > :16:39.seeing these magnificent pictures from central Paris from the Elysee

:16:40. > :16:44.Palace. The two men, as you are saying, outgoing president Hollande

:16:45. > :16:48.and incoming president Emmanuel Macron, exchanging the nuclear

:16:49. > :16:52.missile launch codes, amongst other security procedures that I have been

:16:53. > :16:57.going through at the moment. Then we gather President Hollande will leave

:16:58. > :17:01.the palace and the result of the election is read out inside the

:17:02. > :17:09.Elysee, a moment that marks the actual assumption of power and

:17:10. > :17:13.Emmanuel Macron is then presented with what is effectively his chain

:17:14. > :17:17.of office, that heavy golden necklace, mounted on a red cushion.

:17:18. > :17:29.We have been seen pictures of it actually. That makes him the Grand

:17:30. > :17:34.Master of the National order of the legion, apparently he will not put

:17:35. > :17:39.it on. He is presented with it. I wonder if I can ask you this, is

:17:40. > :17:44.France, the election of a manual Macron, this very young dynamic

:17:45. > :17:50.politician, is it feeling good about itself because I suppose there has

:17:51. > :17:53.been a sense in some ways of France stagnating economically with a lot

:17:54. > :17:57.of problems and divisions, now he has been elected with this huge

:17:58. > :18:09.chunk of the boat, and it feeling better about itself. -- huge chunk

:18:10. > :18:15.of the vote. Goodness knows there have been moments of false hope in

:18:16. > :18:18.the past. I think part of the rise of populism issued to the sense that

:18:19. > :18:22.with every election everyone gets whipped up into a sense of a new

:18:23. > :18:28.dawn and things being resolved and they never are. And that just create

:18:29. > :18:32.cynicism about the establishment politics and once again we do have

:18:33. > :18:38.something of that feeling of optimism hitting the country. This

:18:39. > :18:44.time body by someone who is more genuinely new and young and has been

:18:45. > :18:50.transgressive in a way by taking an the sacred cows of the old parties

:18:51. > :18:54.by saying he's going to do stuff and apparently not minding if it is

:18:55. > :18:59.unpopular. I think we've all been struck by how open he is unwilling

:19:00. > :19:08.to insist on the challenges that emissaries. -- he is willing to

:19:09. > :19:14.insist on the changes that are necessary. He says life is going to

:19:15. > :19:18.be tough, there are tough decisions ahead. I think that plain speaking

:19:19. > :19:23.is quite refreshing and gives people a feeling that maybe this time we've

:19:24. > :19:27.got someone who is prepared to undertake the necessary reforms. I

:19:28. > :19:35.don't think anyone is foolish enough to think that this is somehow going

:19:36. > :19:40.to change things radically. We know there are tough times ahead. We know

:19:41. > :19:43.there are other of elections coming up, the third round of the

:19:44. > :19:47.presidential elections, because he has got to win a majority that. The

:19:48. > :19:51.fourth round, potentially, on the street. Everyone is expecting a fee

:19:52. > :19:56.does go ahead with his reform plans for pedigree changing the labour

:19:57. > :20:01.laws, he said he would do by degree, not by a vote on parliament in the

:20:02. > :20:09.law, by decree, that will certainly create some sort of backlash in the

:20:10. > :20:12.Austin. There is an optimism which is quite significant now, the French

:20:13. > :20:17.have been so long tarnished, politically and what they call the

:20:18. > :20:21.Anglo-Saxon media has been the kind of dead ducks of the Western world.

:20:22. > :20:27.Now they have this sense, hang on a sec, things are moving, Trump in

:20:28. > :20:33.America. Trump has been lambasted by the while's media, seems to have a

:20:34. > :20:38.good thing to say about somehow be light and darkness changing of

:20:39. > :20:42.modern politics. We are in the light and they are in the dark. We are the

:20:43. > :20:48.ones with the new hopeful leader who is got ideas and dynamism and youth

:20:49. > :20:53.and education and culture and openness in foreign languages and

:20:54. > :20:58.all the rest of it and that looks good. We feel good. He is using our

:20:59. > :21:01.language, he is talking of human rights, as the mission of France, of

:21:02. > :21:10.its role in the baulk and suddenly the French feel actually, we can

:21:11. > :21:19.hold our hands high against the now. There is this moment where they are

:21:20. > :21:21.asking, I think, in the blue of favourable baulk attention which is

:21:22. > :21:30.something they are not particular use to. -- world attention. We think

:21:31. > :21:33.the car that reversed up to the engines of the red carpet. I am

:21:34. > :21:40.guessing that is the carpet takes away President Hollande. A rather

:21:41. > :21:46.modest vehicle actually for the outgoing president. I'm straw he is

:21:47. > :21:49.not used to being driven in a small vehicle. How will France remember

:21:50. > :21:54.him, as a failure or somebody who did his best? Just on that car

:21:55. > :22:02.business, we all remember this moment five years ago where Sarkozy

:22:03. > :22:05.handed over to Francois Hollande, Sarkozy came down the steps to the

:22:06. > :22:09.car and very poignantly and significantly and rudely maybe

:22:10. > :22:17.thought Francois Hollande did not accompany him down the steps to the

:22:18. > :22:23.car. This was seen as a real robust and a sign of how Hollande had no

:22:24. > :22:29.time at all four Sarkozy. Hollande said he regretted that. If that is

:22:30. > :22:34.not the field to the day, they could not have the politeness to accompany

:22:35. > :22:40.the upcoming president to the car. How will it be seen? I think

:22:41. > :22:45.inevitably as a failure. That is justified because I remember over

:22:46. > :22:47.and again towards the beginning of this Hollande presidency, Francois

:22:48. > :22:55.Hollande going on television and saying with a solemn eye, staying at

:22:56. > :23:00.the pose -- staring at the people of France, I will bring down

:23:01. > :23:04.unemployment, I will be judged on my ability to bring down unemployment.

:23:05. > :23:07.Unemployment has gone up. It is the biggest curse on this country's

:23:08. > :23:12.social and political life. It has not been addressed. I think that

:23:13. > :23:18.must therefore go down as the big black mark on his presidency. There

:23:19. > :23:21.are people like Macron calling the new ways of tackling unemployment,

:23:22. > :23:24.there are other countries in Europe that have done it by freeing up the

:23:25. > :23:28.labour market. There are people on the left, the far left who are

:23:29. > :23:32.saying there are other ways to do it as well. He said he had the

:23:33. > :23:36.solution, he said he would be judged on whether or not he brought

:23:37. > :23:40.unemployment down. He has not. It has gone up. I think you must be

:23:41. > :23:47.judged on the very like he shone on himself at the very start. -- the

:23:48. > :23:52.very light. We are waiting as the two men continue their discussions

:23:53. > :23:59.and the transfer of those nuclear codes and that is the scene there in

:24:00. > :24:06.the splendour of the Elysee Palace and we will see them walk down those

:24:07. > :24:10.stairs. We are not quite sure how long it is going to Kate, to be

:24:11. > :24:17.honest. One more question about Emmanuel Macron. He said, an Brexit,

:24:18. > :24:25.he's going to be pretty tough. He is very much a pro-European, he is

:24:26. > :24:29.absolutely behind the European project and how tough do think he is

:24:30. > :24:32.going to be on the United Kingdom when it comes to the Brexit

:24:33. > :24:39.negotiations because France and Germany are the crucial nations in

:24:40. > :24:44.the EU? He is quite remarkably pro-European and he speaks in a

:24:45. > :24:47.language, one that is almost forgotten, because of the kind of

:24:48. > :24:51.problems at the last four years and the apologetic tone that has crept

:24:52. > :24:54.into politicians way of speaking about the European Union, even

:24:55. > :24:59.pro-European politicians here in France and Germany somehow do not

:25:00. > :25:01.feel that they can laud the enterprise any more because it has

:25:02. > :25:06.gone so badly wrong. That is not Macron's feeling at all. This is a

:25:07. > :25:11.remarkable thing and it has a feature, we just need to grasp the

:25:12. > :25:17.changes that are needed to bring it forward. -- it has a future. The

:25:18. > :25:23.enterprise of Europe is at a turning point, which we've kind of analyse

:25:24. > :25:26.already. Either it goes forward big-time or it goes back time. He is

:25:27. > :25:32.someone that feels it has to go forward with major reforms now. To

:25:33. > :25:36.integrate properly, to have a central bank, to have controlled the

:25:37. > :25:39.European budget and so on. That is what he wants. He was to rebut this

:25:40. > :25:42.relationship with Germany and that is what is going to make life

:25:43. > :25:47.difficult for Theresa May and the British because he's going to want

:25:48. > :25:51.to speak on Bar is a Europe that is unified, strong and very, very

:25:52. > :25:58.confident. There is another way of looking about which is perhaps more

:25:59. > :26:01.favourable to Britain wishes to a united Europe which is a Europe

:26:02. > :26:05.which is able to negotiate more openly with less of a complex, less

:26:06. > :26:11.of a fear of setting an example to other countries, other populist

:26:12. > :26:16.moment around the continent. His view an Brexit is that it is a

:26:17. > :26:19.disaster for Britain and there is absolutely no reason to give Britain

:26:20. > :26:27.any favours at all four taken mysteries. For the moment, thank you

:26:28. > :26:35.very much. For taking this choice. The guards outside the Elysee either

:26:36. > :26:38.with their bayonets and Emmanuel Macron, the 39 euros, new president

:26:39. > :26:47.of France, inside talking to outgoing president, Francois

:26:48. > :26:50.Hollande. -- 39 years old. After the formal inauguration, the new

:26:51. > :26:55.president Emmanuel Macron will inspect the troops behind the

:26:56. > :27:00.palace, there will be a 21 gun salute and the new president will

:27:01. > :27:12.leave the Elysee and visit Arc de Triomphe. And the tomb beneath it is

:27:13. > :27:16.the unknown soldier. Let's go back to corresponded to as close to the

:27:17. > :27:23.Elysee. A rather wonderful day to do that, apart from the rain.

:27:24. > :27:27.Absolutely a moment of history. The rain has eased now. We are close the

:27:28. > :27:31.police will let us get. Of course the security is enormous. France

:27:32. > :27:36.still under a state of emergency following the attacks of 2015.

:27:37. > :27:44.Really the number of journalists is huge as well here. Please in general

:27:45. > :27:47.is in the Street only. Just a few minutes ago we saw a flotilla of

:27:48. > :27:52.police motorcycles and cars as Emmanuel Macron got out of the car

:27:53. > :27:56.and went in to meet Francois Hollande. Those two men in a private

:27:57. > :27:59.meeting right now, that is a meeting of about half an hour, you are

:28:00. > :28:04.talking about it, that is the handover of power, they are having a

:28:05. > :28:09.fairly formal conversation with the handover also of France's nuclear

:28:10. > :28:13.codes. We also saw them together at the beginning of the week. It was a

:28:14. > :28:20.victory Europe Day commemorations on mediate. The two men went to the Arc

:28:21. > :28:25.de Triomphe then. It was a public holiday, we watched it happen. It

:28:26. > :28:29.was Emmanuel Macron's first outing as President-elect and he stood

:28:30. > :28:32.side-by-side with the outgoing presidents, Francois Hollande on

:28:33. > :28:38.that day on Monday. But today when the next see him, he will be in the

:28:39. > :28:42.process of becoming France's actual president and Francois Hollande will

:28:43. > :28:45.walk along the red-carpet, get into the car, the comes out of that

:28:46. > :28:50.meeting, and leave the Elysee Palace for the last time as president and

:28:51. > :28:53.now we will have the inauguration ceremony in the ballroom. The

:28:54. > :29:03.genocide there, they are waiting for that meeting to come to an end. --

:29:04. > :29:08.the journalists are there. My guess still with me. What sense did we get

:29:09. > :29:13.when we saw Francois Hollande on Monday next year Emmanuel Macron? ,

:29:14. > :29:18.as the relationship, over the past relationship between them and how it

:29:19. > :29:27.is now, many have seen it as a betrayal of the owl going president,

:29:28. > :29:32.a manual, saying he is forming his own party, taking the reins of power

:29:33. > :29:37.from his formal Master? It has to be said that on the face of it, the

:29:38. > :29:40.relationship between a Emmanuel Macron and former President Hollande

:29:41. > :29:47.in a few moments time, it was quite good. President Hollande who brought

:29:48. > :29:51.in Emmanuel Macron festival as his economic adviser and then as is a

:29:52. > :29:58.economy minister. But it has to be said that the economy minister job

:29:59. > :30:04.was more down to the Prime Minister than Hollande himself. He

:30:05. > :30:12.effectively was brought in, Macron was brought in as a money man into

:30:13. > :30:14.Holland's government. It was in the final year of Hollande's presidency

:30:15. > :30:20.and a lot of people thought that it was far too late to do anything

:30:21. > :30:23.about a failing presidency in terms of economic matters. But Macron

:30:24. > :30:29.introduced liberalising policies which upset the socialist camp and

:30:30. > :30:36.led to its division and indeed pave the way and a sense for her centrist

:30:37. > :30:40.path to power. What relationship do we expect him to have with the main

:30:41. > :30:46.political parties? His own formal party, the Socialists and the

:30:47. > :30:52.central right party? Technically the En Marche is very recent indeed,

:30:53. > :30:56.more than a year ago he started up his movement. He resigned from

:30:57. > :31:02.Hollande's cabinet, it took a lot of guts, he started off with no base at

:31:03. > :31:11.all and he managed to create one of his own. Since his victory speech,

:31:12. > :31:16.he has rebranded his party and he will have the immense task now is

:31:17. > :31:21.recruiting people. He made it abundantly clear throughout his

:31:22. > :31:27.campaign, he was neither of the left or the right and he would be seeking

:31:28. > :31:31.577 candidates from the right and be left to join his new voting bloc to

:31:32. > :31:36.represent him in the National Assembly. That is the focus. Looking

:31:37. > :31:41.for the papers, they seem ready to be looking ahead to that challenge,

:31:42. > :31:43.that that husband Larry Little respite, very little time to

:31:44. > :31:48.celebrate and enjoy the moment, he is eagerly having to focus on

:31:49. > :31:51.getting some MPs, getting a majority in parliament so he can carry out

:31:52. > :31:55.the things that he has pledged to do. Very much so. Today the

:31:56. > :31:59.magnificent spectacle of the inauguration will be effectively the

:32:00. > :32:02.last day of celebration and the festivities will effectively end by

:32:03. > :32:07.Monday morning when Emmanuel Macron will have to get stuck into the

:32:08. > :32:16.nitty-gritty of governance and indeed realise, apply, start

:32:17. > :32:22.applying his ambitious political programme and then indeed realise

:32:23. > :32:26.the weight of office that is out of them. Thank you. As we wait for an

:32:27. > :32:29.Emmanuel Macron and Francois Hollande to emerge from that

:32:30. > :32:34.meeting. Let us just go back to Ben in London. There is the car that

:32:35. > :32:40.will take the outgoing president Francois Hollande away for the last

:32:41. > :32:47.time from the Elysee Palace. He will walk along that red-carpet and step

:32:48. > :32:51.into that rather small car by his standards. If you are used to the

:32:52. > :32:55.vehicles of the French Presidency, that is quite a modest one. That is

:32:56. > :33:02.the vehicle that will take him away from the Elysee after he has

:33:03. > :33:07.transferred power to Emmanuel Macron, a process which is under way

:33:08. > :33:11.at the moment. And Emmanuel Macron, amongst other things, is being given

:33:12. > :33:17.the French nuclear codes and then the election result will be read out

:33:18. > :33:23.inside the Elysee Palace. That is the formal moment when Emmanuel

:33:24. > :33:31.Macron becomes the French president. Really an extraordinary achievement

:33:32. > :33:35.that this 39-year-old newcomer, he was in a commonly minister in

:33:36. > :33:43.Francois Hollande's government, a man who is created his own political

:33:44. > :33:49.movement, En Marche, unknown to the world a year or two ago but has now

:33:50. > :33:54.let to Providence and is now going to be -- take to the helm of the

:33:55. > :33:58.world's fifth-largest economy. A country that is a founding member of

:33:59. > :34:03.the European Union and Emmanuel Macron is a fervent pro-European. So

:34:04. > :34:07.his stance during the Brexit negotiations is going to be

:34:08. > :34:11.particularly interesting to see. Emanuel McConnell, a former

:34:12. > :34:17.investment banker, who is promised to bring in a wide-ranging reforms

:34:18. > :34:27.to the French economy. -- Emmanuel Macron. Many have seen a stagnating

:34:28. > :34:31.in recent times. We can bring in a correspondence for French media who

:34:32. > :34:35.can talk to us I think. How significant do you think this is,

:34:36. > :34:46.this moment when we see a manual McConnell take the presidency? Is

:34:47. > :34:49.splendour, it's very symbolic moment when the power, there is no discover

:34:50. > :34:53.new witty of power, it is one president going directly to the next

:34:54. > :34:57.and this one is going to be very different from the one that was five

:34:58. > :35:02.years ago between Francois Hollande and so cosy. At the time, it was not

:35:03. > :35:07.done in a very good spirit, in a way. Sarkozy lost, he wanted to be

:35:08. > :35:13.re-elected, he lost his adversary on the left.

:35:14. > :35:20.This time he says it will be almost joyous occasion, he didn't have the

:35:21. > :35:25.credentials to try be elected again and decided not to run. Emmanuel

:35:26. > :35:33.Macron was elected and he used to be his minister, it's like passing the

:35:34. > :35:39.power, he said to a friend. Some of the same political family, almost.

:35:40. > :35:44.So it will be a friendly occasion, of course a very ceremonial and

:35:45. > :35:49.official ceremony but we saw already that Francois Hollande wants to have

:35:50. > :35:54.a paternalistic approach to it. We saw that when the two men were

:35:55. > :36:04.together on the 8th of May, and after that last week, so basically

:36:05. > :36:10.the ceremony has things that has to happen but there is some average for

:36:11. > :36:18.the two man. They can make the ceremony what they want -- there is

:36:19. > :36:26.some leveraged for the two man. Emmanuel Macron is a new man who is

:36:27. > :36:34.not a politician by trade. How will he want to put his print on this

:36:35. > :36:43.very significant ceremony? We are seeing this wonderful pictures from

:36:44. > :36:47.the Elysee, with guards who will do a 21 gun salute. To what extent do

:36:48. > :36:53.you think that France is still a country divided? We have shown -- as

:36:54. > :37:00.was shown by the election, although Emmanuel Macron won a sizeable

:37:01. > :37:08.majority of 65%, there are deep divisions that he has to work hard

:37:09. > :37:16.to overcome? Indeed. He was elected largely. But the person behind him

:37:17. > :37:20.was Marine Le Pen. You have these people that want to save the

:37:21. > :37:27.Republic, they were there but between the first and second round,

:37:28. > :37:33.but it was not as big in 2002 with Jean-Marie Le Pen versus Jacques

:37:34. > :37:37.Chirac. There was not this is a relation of people as people coming

:37:38. > :37:42.together, whoever they wanted to come together around to save the

:37:43. > :37:47.Republic. During the first and second round, there was criticism of

:37:48. > :37:54.Emmanuel Macron Marathon 2002 criticism of Jacques Chirac was not

:37:55. > :37:58.exactly allowed. There was the Southern splendour as one critic

:37:59. > :38:05.said. He has been elected largely. -- sudden splendour. They didn't

:38:06. > :38:11.want to have the Front National in the Palace so they didn't vote for

:38:12. > :38:17.him by choice, and some people, a lot of people decided not to vote at

:38:18. > :38:26.all. In terms of the voting rating, Emmanuel Macron arrived first, then

:38:27. > :38:31.spoiled ballots, and then Marine Le Pen. The day afterwards was elected.

:38:32. > :38:36.There were people protesting against Emmanuel Macron as president. There

:38:37. > :38:41.was something important about that. It happened in 2007, when Sarkozy

:38:42. > :38:49.was elected. There were people in the street pops protest against

:38:50. > :38:55.Nicolas Sarkozy. There is something, some would argue, that is being lost

:38:56. > :39:02.in the respect that you have to give to the function of president. If,

:39:03. > :39:09.even before being installed as president, he can be challenged, you

:39:10. > :39:20.can say of him, I don't want him, I want him out. Get rid of him. He was

:39:21. > :39:28.just elected freshly. So some people are very wary of him. In the first

:39:29. > :39:38.round, John Luke Melenchon was in the far left and did a -- his

:39:39. > :39:43.new-found supporters really don't agree with the programme of Emmanuel

:39:44. > :39:50.Macron and in particular, his labour law reform, the liberal law reform.

:39:51. > :39:55.This far left movement really gathered momentum for the first

:39:56. > :40:01.round. So he has a very divided country indeed, to take care. It is

:40:02. > :40:08.not just the far right but also far left who have waken up for this

:40:09. > :40:13.election. As the press said just after the first round, there is a

:40:14. > :40:17.difference that is doing well, voting for Emmanuel Macron, and the

:40:18. > :40:20.France that is doing badly, that's the France that voted for Marine Le

:40:21. > :40:28.Pen. It's a bit more complicated than that. It is not just that

:40:29. > :40:32.people want a nationalistic approach of the country's problem and want to

:40:33. > :40:36.vote for the far right, that would be easy enough to understand, but it

:40:37. > :40:41.is much more fragmented. It will be quite complicated, because Emmanuel

:40:42. > :40:49.Macron doesn't want to be Francois Hollande number two. He doesn't want

:40:50. > :40:53.to realise that he doesn't -- he doesn't want the presidency to pass

:40:54. > :40:59.by and realised he didn't do anything. He is already displeasing

:41:00. > :41:04.a lot of people, so it is going to be hard for him. But even now he is

:41:05. > :41:09.not a politician by trade, I think is quite prepared to do what he has

:41:10. > :41:12.to do and even being quite unpopular for what he has to do. Because he

:41:13. > :41:17.knows in the end that five years from now, what is going to count for

:41:18. > :41:23.most people, people who didn't agree with him before he started before

:41:24. > :41:26.will never agree with him. He knows that even in five years, the people

:41:27. > :41:32.he won't need to convince other people who are waiting for results

:41:33. > :41:37.and that is the way he wants to start his presidency. He wants to do

:41:38. > :41:43.things very quickly, he said himself that he wants to change without even

:41:44. > :41:48.going through Parliament at the summer. He wants to do things that

:41:49. > :41:53.are radical, maybe that's a bad word, but important, he wants to

:41:54. > :41:59.change the face of France in a way. That is bound to be unpopular but at

:42:00. > :42:03.the same time French people say they want change. So we will see how they

:42:04. > :42:12.accept the change that the new president is presenting. Thank you.

:42:13. > :42:16.Just tell us, we are seeing the wonderful preparation for the

:42:17. > :42:26.ceremony at the Elysee Palace. It will all get away after Mr Macron

:42:27. > :42:37.has finished his meeting with the outgoing president, Francois

:42:38. > :42:40.Hollande. He will be presented with a ceremony and the official

:42:41. > :42:44.documents, he will be officially president. We always think, in

:42:45. > :42:51.Britain, we do ceremonial rather well but in France they do it very

:42:52. > :42:55.well too. How important is it to the French people and the French

:42:56. > :42:58.republic that there is this great ceremonial surrounding the

:42:59. > :43:03.inauguration of the new president? It is quite important. Even though

:43:04. > :43:10.we don't have kings any more, we do like the ceremonial of power still.

:43:11. > :43:18.It is something that is still very intriguing. The Palace is a grand

:43:19. > :43:28.seem to do that in. You can see the length of this break -- red carpet,

:43:29. > :43:33.and the palace, and the ballroom is very beautiful as well. After he has

:43:34. > :43:38.spoken at the Elysee Palace and after the position of power is down,

:43:39. > :43:44.he will go at the Champs-Elysees, which is dubbed the most beautiful

:43:45. > :43:50.avenue of the world. That is quite important that the French president

:43:51. > :43:53.is able to go down in the most beautiful avenue in the world. That

:43:54. > :44:01.is not an significant for the French people. It is possible -- that is

:44:02. > :44:12.significant for the French people. The night he was elected, it was

:44:13. > :44:18.possible that he might walk alone to the end of the Champs-Elysees, which

:44:19. > :44:23.is what he did, if you remember, on Sunday evening. He walked, isolated,

:44:24. > :44:30.towards the people with the European anthem behind him. And it was very

:44:31. > :44:34.touching and special. It's something he will be remembered for in years

:44:35. > :44:39.to come, this man, a loan, walking towards the people of France.

:44:40. > :44:47.Apparently, that is what he wants to do again. Symbolism is very

:44:48. > :44:52.important. As I said, there is some kind of possibility for the two men

:44:53. > :44:58.to make what they want. Emmanuel Macron is any man, he wants make it

:44:59. > :45:01.special and so, it is not just another politician that you have in

:45:02. > :45:05.this grand and splendid palace, who by the way, most presidents don't

:45:06. > :45:12.like because it's not nice to live in. Even though I'm going to the

:45:13. > :45:15.same palace, I will be different. That is apparently what he wants to

:45:16. > :45:22.do and how he wants to do it, by working alone. Thank you so much for

:45:23. > :45:27.the moment, very good to talk to you. That spring back in Hugh

:45:28. > :45:34.Schofield, our Paris correspondent. You've watched lots of these power

:45:35. > :45:40.transfers down big year in France. Marie were saying we don't have

:45:41. > :45:47.kings any more, but you wouldn't guess that from the splendour around

:45:48. > :45:51.the Elysee Palace today. Talking -- talk as the what happens and how

:45:52. > :45:53.important it is the France. But they say the French have a monopoly

:45:54. > :46:09.course freak in them. -- monarchical streak in them and

:46:10. > :46:14.they haven't lost the taste for monarchy, it's deep in the genes of

:46:15. > :46:21.the country. They seem to take the big idea of a president -- seemed to

:46:22. > :46:25.take to the idea of a president who is above politics. By contrast with

:46:26. > :46:31.Britain, for example, this is all new. The French republic is only

:46:32. > :46:38.about 70 years old. All these rituals that have been

:46:39. > :46:49.-- invented in recent times, it looks ancient and pompous and full

:46:50. > :46:55.of ceremony, but actually a lot of it was invented by Charles de Gaulle

:46:56. > :47:01.and his successor. I have not been that many presidential handover of

:47:02. > :47:09.power in the fifth Republic. That said, there is at the Elysee, the

:47:10. > :47:13.trappings of ceremony. It pleases, I think, the French, to see it all

:47:14. > :47:20.rolled out again. Certainly as a nation, the French now have -- know

:47:21. > :47:25.how to do it in the same way the British know-how to do it. Both our

:47:26. > :47:27.nations with history, tradition and, uniforms and grandfather. --

:47:28. > :47:42.fanfare. one of his first priorities as

:47:43. > :47:47.president is to try and get a decent showing of MPs in the parliament?

:47:48. > :47:51.How is he going to do that? He has En Marche but it's a tall order

:47:52. > :47:58.isn't it? It is pretty much been born from nothing. But there are

:47:59. > :48:05.hopeful signs. It is not ludicrous to predict that he'll get a majority

:48:06. > :48:10.in the house -- the lower chamber. It is by no means a given, and he

:48:11. > :48:17.will fight hard to get it with his new party, the En Marche, but there

:48:18. > :48:23.is something here which he has rightly identified as a logic of the

:48:24. > :48:27.institutions. There is a national feeling that, if you I elected

:48:28. > :48:31.president, the least you can do afterwards is to give him a majority

:48:32. > :48:39.in parliament so he can do what he set out to do. The constitution is

:48:40. > :48:45.very flexible in France, it's set in stone by Charles de Gaulle in 1958.

:48:46. > :48:50.It makes the president an important figure but it is based on his ruling

:48:51. > :48:53.the majority of Parliament. If he doesn't have that majority, then

:48:54. > :49:00.power does shift. It shifts to the Prime Minister. This is what

:49:01. > :49:05.Emmanuel Macron wants to avoid, he wants a parameter and the government

:49:06. > :49:09.loyal to him. But to have that, he needs a majority. The next few weeks

:49:10. > :49:14.will be important because the landscape has shifted after the

:49:15. > :49:17.selection completely. We are in unknown territory, the pollsters

:49:18. > :49:22.don't know how to predict this election because Sting constituency

:49:23. > :49:27.by a constituency. We have the En Marche movement with the wind in its

:49:28. > :49:34.sales, younger candidates from civil society which come fresh faced with

:49:35. > :49:44.optimism, but you have the other parties too. On the right, Le

:49:45. > :49:49.Republica, which has not fallen apart. It feels that the legislative

:49:50. > :49:54.or the chance to come back and make a great showing, to signify the

:49:55. > :49:59.Emmanuel Macron that the centre-right is where the balance of

:50:00. > :50:02.power lies. So to win the majority, and impose on him a promised and

:50:03. > :50:08.government which will have to work. If that happens, we will have to

:50:09. > :50:15.have the cohabitation with Macron as president and really having to take

:50:16. > :50:18.a step back from the polity making -- policy-making, which will reside

:50:19. > :50:21.mostly with the government on Prime Minister with the backing of

:50:22. > :50:30.Parliament. That is what Emmanuel Macron wants to avoid. So it will be

:50:31. > :50:34.very important and is interesting. All you can say in Emmanuel Macron's

:50:35. > :50:37.favour is that there is a logic to his election, and many people will

:50:38. > :50:41.not have voted for him in the presidential election. I will be

:50:42. > :50:45.saying, we need to give him a chance. He seems to be an honest

:50:46. > :50:48.person with ideas. If we hamstring him from the start, his whole

:50:49. > :50:53.presidency will be a failure of course. Let us give him the powers

:50:54. > :50:58.he needs to do what he has to do. And he will do what he has to do as

:50:59. > :51:03.an outsider, is the way he's been portrayed. This has been cold by

:51:04. > :51:11.some as a political revolution in France. In another way, he is an

:51:12. > :51:16.archetypal insider. You are tiny in terms of his education, he is part

:51:17. > :51:21.of the French elite. -- you told me in terms of his education, he is

:51:22. > :51:25.part of the elite. But he is portraying himself as an outsider.

:51:26. > :51:34.This is what is held against him by both be right and the far left. The

:51:35. > :51:41.handover of power, they say, is a sham. Because Francois Hollande,

:51:42. > :51:46.according to this theory, has done something of political genius. The

:51:47. > :51:50.critics say that his presidency was a failure when it comes to policy

:51:51. > :51:56.and its effect on the country but politically, boxer-macro remains a

:51:57. > :51:58.mastermind. What he has done is cleverly -- Francois Hollande

:51:59. > :52:05.remains a mastermind. He has bought someone into power who has carried

:52:06. > :52:10.on his legacy. This is someone who has been with Francois Hollande from

:52:11. > :52:19.the start. Macron was with Francois Hollande on the day have in direct

:52:20. > :52:24.-- on the day of his inauguration. He was his protege. This is held

:52:25. > :52:28.against him and Francois Hollande in particular by both the far left and

:52:29. > :52:34.the far right. It is his weak point, carrying on the legacy that broadly

:52:35. > :52:39.what he is going to do is carry out more effectively what Francois

:52:40. > :52:44.Hollande tried to carry out. That is a soft liberalisation of economic

:52:45. > :52:50.policy and a soft warming up with Germany. The idea is that Francois

:52:51. > :52:53.Hollande was hamstrung with that because he made promises to the left

:52:54. > :53:01.and was not a man who had clear ideas. But that was the drift of his

:53:02. > :53:07.policy. Macron now, who says we need to open up and liberalise and reform

:53:08. > :53:12.Europe, to staff, that is simply a -- we need to do stuff, that is

:53:13. > :53:15.simply doing it without the embarrassment of boxer-macro's

:53:16. > :53:23.policy. Continuity I think is part of this, but France does not need

:53:24. > :53:29.anything radical, it needs change in the direction that it has set out

:53:30. > :53:35.already. A more open labour market, close the relationships with

:53:36. > :53:39.Germany, the reforms which Emmanuel Macron has espoused. It is

:53:40. > :53:44.continuity, but the alternative was something radical indeed. That was a

:53:45. > :53:51.move towards the politics of emotion, and populism. That is what

:53:52. > :54:00.the country has rejected. Rejected it for now. To what extent do you

:54:01. > :54:04.think populism and the far right and Marine Le Pen will be back next

:54:05. > :54:11.time? Undoubtedly, they will not go away unless the country can lift

:54:12. > :54:15.itself up by its bootstraps and in five years' time, feel better place.

:54:16. > :54:20.If it does feel a better place five years from there is no reason to

:54:21. > :54:25.think that Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon of the far left,

:54:26. > :54:31.will be then really poised to take part. But that is a big if. But it

:54:32. > :54:40.is possible that there are historical forces at work here that

:54:41. > :54:44.are beyond the possibility of any president to turn around. Maybe what

:54:45. > :54:48.is happening in Europe and France is a decline in relationship with the

:54:49. > :54:51.rest of the world, a sense of no longer being the top dogs at the top

:54:52. > :54:58.table, that is something which will have to get used to. It will be a

:54:59. > :55:01.long process of adjustment of other parts of the world like China and

:55:02. > :55:04.India become more important and richer. It may be a psychological

:55:05. > :55:09.adjustment of the country has to go to. Which will take a long period of

:55:10. > :55:14.time, and it may be in five years' time the country still feels very

:55:15. > :55:19.badly off and unhappy and miserable and nostalgic, in which case the

:55:20. > :55:24.solutions offered by the protectionist, the Nationalists, or

:55:25. > :55:28.on the left the people who want to completely overhaul the capitalist

:55:29. > :55:31.system, those messages may still have great appeal. They are owed an

:55:32. > :55:37.enormous result ability under shoulders of Emmanuel Macron to give

:55:38. > :55:40.signals over the next five years. No one expects things to sell around

:55:41. > :55:45.completely, but at least the start of the process of rebuilding. -- no

:55:46. > :55:51.one expects things to turn around completely. On the European level,

:55:52. > :55:55.this will play out. If Macron gets his way, we will see a big

:55:56. > :56:00.relaunching of the European project. Again, some say we have been there

:56:01. > :56:05.and done that. Do we really want to rest all our hopes on a resurgence

:56:06. > :56:08.of the European project? Is his argument will be, yes, we have

:56:09. > :56:15.reached a point where we have got rid of Britain which was the great,

:56:16. > :56:21.sort of, ball and chain about immigration, now is the chance for

:56:22. > :56:24.you really to move down the road to integration -- for Europe to really

:56:25. > :56:30.move down the road to integration, setting up European Parliament, is

:56:31. > :56:37.there a system of distributing wealth. If that can happen in

:56:38. > :56:41.partnership with France's reef forming, maybe Europe will start

:56:42. > :56:46.being able to take the rightful place on the world stage to which he

:56:47. > :56:54.certainly think is it. Thanks for joining us. Hugh Schofield with his

:56:55. > :56:57.analysis of where we are on a historic day this France as it

:56:58. > :57:06.watches the transfer of power from Francois Hollande too, as you were

:57:07. > :57:17.saying, the young Emmanuel Macron. Close by to the Elysee Palace is our

:57:18. > :57:30.correspondent, and we were seeing people on the street

:57:31. > :57:46.we were speaking to people and the crowd of been huge, whether it is a

:57:47. > :57:51.socialist or another party. Perhaps Emmanuel Macron has not attracted

:57:52. > :57:55.the same amount of actual supporters turning up to the Elysee Palace

:57:56. > :58:02.because he is so new. But they are saying around here, this is a far

:58:03. > :58:08.smaller crowds may have seen at the Elysee Palace for past inauguration.

:58:09. > :58:10.You were talking about the difficulties and challenges that

:58:11. > :58:15.Emmanuel Macron faces and has been facing since the moment he was

:58:16. > :58:18.elected one week ago. All the newspapers this morning, pretty much

:58:19. > :58:23.all of them, are talking about what he has to do now. The honeymoon

:58:24. > :58:28.period was so incredibly short before, immediately, he started

:58:29. > :58:33.thinking towards the 11th of June, that is one the lower house of

:58:34. > :58:37.parliament elections take place. He needs a majority of MPs in that

:58:38. > :58:43.lower house of parliament. At the moment En Marche, his party, his

:58:44. > :58:50.movement, has absolutely nobody in the Parliament. They have to get a

:58:51. > :58:55.working majority of people to support him in order for Emmanuel

:58:56. > :59:00.Macron to carry out the reforms he wants in order to pass laws. That is

:59:01. > :59:06.talk about this some more. This week, we have had the revelation of

:59:07. > :59:14.people running for the seats, not all of them have been announced.

:59:15. > :59:20.They are a diverse bunch, exactly half female, and come from all walks

:59:21. > :59:28.of life? The presidential office will be in enormous for Macron. He

:59:29. > :59:33.realises that. The difficulty for him will be that he has at the

:59:34. > :59:39.moment, no constituency behind him and his En Marche is fairly new. He

:59:40. > :59:55.has this changed it to Republic En Marche. At the moment, he doesn't

:59:56. > :59:59.have a shoo-in. -- a shoo-in Prime Minister to come into the lower

:00:00. > :00:06.house. And he has no obvious political allies either. He will

:00:07. > :00:09.have to find some too, effectively, enforce his ambitious political

:00:10. > :00:16.programme. As you said, at the moment, people have emigrated so

:00:17. > :00:20.far, half of them have no political experience at all -- people have

:00:21. > :00:31.been recruited so far. The average age is 46 which is younger than the

:00:32. > :00:35.people who occupy the seats at the moment. People from all walks of

:00:36. > :00:42.life including a former bull-fighter and a former Nobel were winning

:00:43. > :00:50.mathematician. It is 50-50 in terms of male and female distribution. But

:00:51. > :00:54.this strikes me less about ability than representational correctness.

:00:55. > :01:02.He will have to find political friends and allies pretty quickly.

:01:03. > :01:06.We see inside the Elysee, everybody in anticipation. That meeting

:01:07. > :01:11.between outgoing and incoming president seems to be going on for a

:01:12. > :01:13.while. They are having essentially an informal conversation before

:01:14. > :01:21.Emmanuel Macron sees Francois Hollande out of the Elysee Palace

:01:22. > :01:27.the good. But as an outgoing president, I'm sure Francois

:01:28. > :01:34.Hollande will be welcomed but they will follow the actual inauguration

:01:35. > :01:44.after that. We saw Emmanuel Macron's rive Bridget alive -- wife Bridget

:01:45. > :01:50.alive before her husband. Why did it come in that order?

:01:51. > :02:05.-- review that guard by the incumbent president and his wife by

:02:06. > :02:09.the steps of the Elysee Palace. Of course, president Emmanuel Macron is

:02:10. > :02:17.a bachelor and doesn't have an official first Lady. The surgery and

:02:18. > :02:24.-- to avoid embarrassment, she arrived before him. We have talked

:02:25. > :02:28.about his forthcoming parliamentary legislative election, there is

:02:29. > :02:35.obviously the fact that the French president is a powerful role in

:02:36. > :02:39.itself. But Parliament is essential still for doing things he wants to

:02:40. > :02:44.do. Absolutely. The irony about Emmanuel Macron is that what it

:02:45. > :02:49.essentially allowed him to rise so quickly, is also to do with his

:02:50. > :02:57.ability. We discussed how lucky he got with this election. But it has

:02:58. > :03:06.to do with the details. He is hands on with the policies he lamented. --

:03:07. > :03:15.with the policies he invented. He will be having to find ministers and

:03:16. > :03:21.crucially, a permanently to reinforce his policies. He will be

:03:22. > :03:23.less hands-on ironically, and he will have to find people to

:03:24. > :03:31.implement this programme. Monday will be the day that announcement

:03:32. > :03:35.all be to be premised. A lot of names are being bandied about. That

:03:36. > :03:39.will be crucial to set the tone for his presidency, whether he chooses

:03:40. > :03:44.someone from the Socialist Party or the more right-wing candidate, it

:03:45. > :03:50.will be decisive in the course of action in his administration. So

:03:51. > :03:55.far, there have been 24 socialists who have been selected to represent

:03:56. > :04:03.his Republic En Marche movement to face this Parliament elections.

:04:04. > :04:07.There will be members from the conservative Republican parties who

:04:08. > :04:19.want to leave what is a blighted party now in the wake of their

:04:20. > :04:29.their support of a candidate who is going under criminal investigation.

:04:30. > :04:39.They will want immediate power and will be tempted to join the En

:04:40. > :04:43.Marche movement. These allegations against Francois Fillon, he would

:04:44. > :04:47.have been a favourite for centre-right and his expenses and

:04:48. > :04:50.salaries are now under the microscope and that effectively led

:04:51. > :04:52.to the fact that he fell out of the race and did not make it through to

:04:53. > :05:01.the second round. I think it is fair to say when the

:05:02. > :05:08.scandal broke, the state job scandal, he would've been a shoo-in,

:05:09. > :05:11.for Fillon. He had a formidable vehicle behind him help, he took

:05:12. > :05:17.over as Sarkozy as head of the party and he was hugely popular. Everybody

:05:18. > :05:23.was absolutely convinced that he was going to be the next president and

:05:24. > :05:27.all of a sudden, this scandal broke out which has to do with the

:05:28. > :05:30.effectively self enrichment and I think that is what made an awful lot

:05:31. > :05:35.of difference in the minds of French people who, let's be honest, I used

:05:36. > :05:39.to be corruption of the political class of France, either on the left

:05:40. > :05:47.or on the right, but the difference was, unlike others who also got

:05:48. > :05:54.criminal charges against them for all sorts of corruption with the

:05:55. > :05:57.party, it had to do with enriching the party and not themselves and I

:05:58. > :06:01.think that is the main difference that has stuck with the French

:06:02. > :06:05.people. That was the twist of fate that helped Emmanuel Macron on the

:06:06. > :06:09.right. What happened with regard to the socialist? They had a primary

:06:10. > :06:13.which ended up in a candidate being chosen who were so far to the left

:06:14. > :06:18.that he did not represent the centre, the right of the party and

:06:19. > :06:23.utter innocence was another sense of luck for Emmanuel Macron? To a

:06:24. > :06:26.certain extent, it could be argued that he is responsible for the

:06:27. > :06:31.fragmentation of the left. He came in as a money man to Hollande's

:06:32. > :06:35.government and he started implementing very right-wing, some

:06:36. > :06:40.people would say, liberalising economic policies which divided the

:06:41. > :06:44.left and absolutely angered an awful lot of traditional socialist. It

:06:45. > :06:50.effectively lead to the explosion of the left into three separate

:06:51. > :06:54.parties. The hard life, Jean-Luc Melenchon, the official candidate

:06:55. > :07:03.for the socialist was another, the social Democrat, Emmanuel Macron who

:07:04. > :07:08.won the race in the end. We are just waiting. As many of the people in

:07:09. > :07:13.the Elysee Palace are for former, or the outgoing president Francois

:07:14. > :07:18.Hollande to emerge. From that meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the

:07:19. > :07:22.incoming president, the handover of power, the conversation between the

:07:23. > :07:26.two men. They know each other so well. Handing over the nuclear codes

:07:27. > :07:31.as well. This very private meeting is critical. It is absolutely

:07:32. > :07:35.crucial to this whole process, isn't it? Absolutely. It is the effective

:07:36. > :07:39.handover of power that is happening at the moment. In a short period of

:07:40. > :07:45.time, we will see President Hollande out of the Elysee Palace, honoured

:07:46. > :07:49.by the Republican guard salute, of course he will be welcomed at any

:07:50. > :07:53.time by the Macrons in the Elysee Palace as well and will follow the

:07:54. > :07:58.actual inauguration ceremony which is very solemn and will happen in

:07:59. > :08:02.the ballroom at the Elysee Palace, as has been the case under the fifth

:08:03. > :08:07.public. It has not been the case under the third and fourth republics

:08:08. > :08:15.where it took place in the room at Versailles. So, while we wait here,

:08:16. > :08:20.just outside the Elysee Palace looking at the crowds that opposite,

:08:21. > :08:24.waiting for Francois Hollande, the outgoing president to emerge, once

:08:25. > :08:29.he has got into a car, we saw parked, at the end of the 60 metres

:08:30. > :08:35.of red-carpet, he will drive away and that is the end of his term in

:08:36. > :08:40.office. Under blue skies now, the rain has stopped, thankfully, here

:08:41. > :08:47.in Paris. The moment, back to you, Ben, in the studio. Thank you very

:08:48. > :08:51.much indeed. Those talks between the outgoing President Hollande and his

:08:52. > :08:54.protege, the new president 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, those

:08:55. > :09:01.talks seem to be going on a little bit longer than we had expected. But

:09:02. > :09:04.they are, as we know, two men who know each other very well and they

:09:05. > :09:12.have got plenty to talk about, the future of France and the transfer of

:09:13. > :09:16.those nuclear codes. Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield, that

:09:17. > :09:20.is, innocence, some of the most important business of the day. We

:09:21. > :09:27.have all this ceremonial but as the transfer of the nuclear codes that

:09:28. > :09:31.is crucial there. I've been reading up on the nuclear codes, is it

:09:32. > :09:38.really be nuclear codes, what does it mean? Do they have to memorise

:09:39. > :09:43.it? In fact what it is we use the shorthand in nuclear codes, what it

:09:44. > :09:48.is it is a code, it is a code that identifies him as the president. In

:09:49. > :09:54.other words, when there is a crisis and the Armed Forces chiefs are, on

:09:55. > :09:58.the stand-by, in order to identify himself to them to say look, I am

:09:59. > :10:02.giving the order to launch the nuclear missiles, he needs to have

:10:03. > :10:07.some kind of identifier and that is what is handed over to him at this

:10:08. > :10:13.meeting. Presumably in must change as well. More than that, I do not

:10:14. > :10:17.know. It is not the kind of code that launches a nuclear missile, it

:10:18. > :10:24.is the identifier for the president. And the anecdote that goes with it

:10:25. > :10:28.that in 1981 when the president was handing over to the next, he had

:10:29. > :10:31.this meeting which is going on now between Macron. Hollande, and gave

:10:32. > :10:35.him the information and it was on a piece of paper and he put it in the

:10:36. > :10:40.pocket of his suit that later in the day, he changed his suit and Lucy 20

:10:41. > :10:45.the dry cleaners! Sony pocket of deceit going to the dry cleaners was

:10:46. > :10:51.the President's personal identifier which would allow him to lodge

:10:52. > :10:54.nuclear war. Fortunately of course the suit was recuperated in time

:10:55. > :11:00.when the problem was spotted and nothing ever leaked out. But that is

:11:01. > :11:04.the story. It is a very good story. You have the image of Mr Macron

:11:05. > :11:09.scribbling down numbers on a scrap of paper. I cannot imagine it as

:11:10. > :11:16.basic as that today. Look, the sky over Paris has lifted. It is a

:11:17. > :11:19.beautiful blue sky now because it was raining rather heavily one were

:11:20. > :11:25.talking to a colleague earlier. Perhaps that is a symbol of a bright

:11:26. > :11:30.new dawn for France as it enters its new presidency. And the car that I

:11:31. > :11:33.will take away the outgoing president Hollande. What are your

:11:34. > :11:39.thoughts on this day? A very political significant day for

:11:40. > :11:44.France. Well, on a more trivial meteorological question, everyone

:11:45. > :11:53.remembers this day five years ago when Hollande had just been

:11:54. > :11:57.inaugurated and made his way up Champs-Elysee and it started

:11:58. > :12:05.bucketing with rain and he was sodden and his suits started taking

:12:06. > :12:15.on this air of sheen on it. Well, the weather is certainly looking

:12:16. > :12:22.better today. There is finally the moment we have been waiting for. The

:12:23. > :12:25.new president and the old president side-by-side, after that meeting

:12:26. > :12:29.that we have just been talking about, where they work, amongst

:12:30. > :12:39.other things, discussing the nuclear codes. And Emmanuel Macron, as Hugh

:12:40. > :12:47.Schofield wishes telling us, being given the code that identified him

:12:48. > :12:52.as the man who can trigger a nuclear response from France. And applause

:12:53. > :12:55.as the two men walk along the red carpet that leads Francois Hollande

:12:56. > :13:02.to the car that will take him away from the Elysee Palace for the last

:13:03. > :13:11.time. And a handshake and a tap on the shoulder for the new president,

:13:12. > :13:14.Emmanuel Macron. From the man, Francois Hollande who brought him

:13:15. > :13:20.into his government as Economy Minister and has watched him rise to

:13:21. > :13:26.power. Francois Hollande applauded by his protege as he steps into the

:13:27. > :13:41.back of that modest car, a ways to his successor. A -- his successor.

:13:42. > :13:48.Leading with a mixed legacy. Seen as by an author as a failure, his

:13:49. > :13:57.popularity rating slumped. A wave in the sunshine. As he leaves. Applause

:13:58. > :14:11.as he is driven out through the gates for the last time. The crowds

:14:12. > :14:14.outside the Elysee that are an Emmanuel Macron now walks back alone

:14:15. > :14:23.along the red carpet to the Elysee for the formal inauguration ceremony

:14:24. > :14:35.as Francois Hollande is driven away. Mr Macron with his wife Brigitte.

:14:36. > :14:47.The women he met when he was her drama student at school, just a

:14:48. > :14:52.teenager and he wrote the play, apparently, that she wished hugely

:14:53. > :14:58.impressed by and all of France has been impressed by his talent and he

:14:59. > :15:04.has risen with meteoric speed as these races up those stairs with

:15:05. > :15:09.great energy, bounding up the stairs, just showing what a young

:15:10. > :15:16.president he is. Only 39 years of age. But is it going to be a

:15:17. > :15:18.revolution in France or is it is going to be more of the same? That

:15:19. > :15:23.is what Hugh Schofield was discussing whether because, of

:15:24. > :15:29.course, he has been Francois Hollande's protege and many of his

:15:30. > :15:35.critics, Mr Macron, will say, he is just part of the old Hollande regime

:15:36. > :15:44.who is going to continue the same policies. So, he's Goforth, Paris

:15:45. > :15:53.correspondent, just talk is what really happens now. How does this

:15:54. > :15:57.inauguration actually take place? In these sort of constitutional

:15:58. > :16:02.ceremonial, there is no actual, I do not think, moment of handing on of

:16:03. > :16:05.power. There is no anointing of the king like there would be in the

:16:06. > :16:09.cathedral in the old days, the moment of the anointing he becomes

:16:10. > :16:16.king. I think it is just happening now as we speak. At some point in

:16:17. > :16:20.this hour, the hour that has been on the hour that has yet to come, he

:16:21. > :16:24.becomes president. You could see it as the moment when Francois Hollande

:16:25. > :16:28.tries away all the moment when the president of the cost YouTube

:16:29. > :16:34.Council reads out the results of the elections which he is going to do

:16:35. > :16:38.now. Maybe that is the moment when it is recorded publicly that he was

:16:39. > :16:41.elected and is now president. It is not known and it is not really

:16:42. > :16:46.matter. What is certainly knowing that when he emerges, I think out of

:16:47. > :16:51.the back door, add to the garden of the Elysee onto the Champs-Elysee,

:16:52. > :16:56.he is the president and the country looks and realises that there is a

:16:57. > :17:00.new leader. A bit like in Britain, in the French way, there is a

:17:01. > :17:05.mystery surrounding all of theirs which is part of the sacramental is

:17:06. > :17:13.of high office in France. No one can put their finger on it. It is just

:17:14. > :17:18.what happens. But as we speak, he is becoming president. He will make

:17:19. > :17:25.that speech in a second and then he will be anointed and inducted, shall

:17:26. > :17:29.we say, as Grand Master of the Legion of honour and that is a

:17:30. > :17:34.symbolic moment as well, going back to Napoleon because the Grand Master

:17:35. > :17:39.of the Legion of honour is the president. He will make the speech,

:17:40. > :17:44.go up the Champs-Elysee and then it will be to business. The ceremony

:17:45. > :17:48.will be forgotten. There is another moment this afternoon where he goes

:17:49. > :17:52.to meet the Mayor of Paris. But as part of tradition. It will be very

:17:53. > :17:55.quickly down to business for Emmanuel Macron because there is an

:17:56. > :17:58.awful lot to do. And he was to be seen as someone who gets down to

:17:59. > :18:01.business very quickly. I'm good to be very interested to see whether he

:18:02. > :18:06.is one of those presidents who acts in the first few months knowing that

:18:07. > :18:10.will make him an unpopular but to get the unpopularity over with first

:18:11. > :18:13.or whether he is someone, a bit like Hollande, who dithers and nothing

:18:14. > :18:18.gets done much. I think he's going to be more like someone who decides

:18:19. > :18:24.to take the heat early on with some fairly dramatic early decision. And

:18:25. > :18:29.you talk about his energy. When we saw him running up the stairs there,

:18:30. > :18:33.he seemed to be wanting to show that he is a very young and vigorous

:18:34. > :18:39.president. And different in a way to predecessors and from Hollande.

:18:40. > :18:43.Completely. He knows he represents this generational change. He knows

:18:44. > :18:47.that for many young people, particularly of the kind of aspiring

:18:48. > :18:51.middle classes, people who do not want to give up on optimism, people

:18:52. > :18:57.you want to feel that France has got a place in the New World, he

:18:58. > :19:01.represents them, they are a generation who feel they have been

:19:02. > :19:05.badly done by by the failure of France to reform. They are people

:19:06. > :19:09.that feel like the older generation of people, the people who emerge

:19:10. > :19:14.from the 1968 May cultural revolution that followed that, they

:19:15. > :19:17.have been done out of their birthright, that the people in the

:19:18. > :19:20.old generation have held onto their jobs, they have got the good

:19:21. > :19:23.positions and the Scot on them and they have said, if you want to come

:19:24. > :19:29.get jobs, you have your own rebellion. There is this resentment,

:19:30. > :19:33.I think among middle-class and younger people who still the place

:19:34. > :19:40.should be shaken up so that their chance in the sun should come. He

:19:41. > :19:45.represents them and was too generally open up the French

:19:46. > :19:50.economy, along liberal lines so that is more easy the younger people to

:19:51. > :19:56.get access to jobs and that the youthful energy, as he jumped up

:19:57. > :20:03.those stairs, is a signal that he was to give up to this country. We

:20:04. > :20:08.are seeing Brigitte, his wife, 64 years old, many people have talked a

:20:09. > :20:14.lot and been rather fascinated by this relationship, this great story,

:20:15. > :20:19.the romance of the schoolboy meeting his drama teacher and then marrying

:20:20. > :20:24.her. How important? She's going to be a very different first lady in

:20:25. > :20:28.the Elysee. She may well get a proper status. One of Emmanuel

:20:29. > :20:32.Macron's plans is devoted to the rule book, whatever that is, whether

:20:33. > :20:37.it is a law or decree, something that says that France can have a

:20:38. > :20:40.first Lady. There is nothing in the rule book, the Constitution about

:20:41. > :20:46.their wife or spouse, partner of the president. I think he wants to

:20:47. > :20:50.officially start which is not uncontroversial because many people

:20:51. > :20:53.in France will say that is not part of our republican traditions, family

:20:54. > :20:58.members have no role in the running of our state, of our country, his

:20:59. > :21:03.view would be, well, we have lived in a very hypocritical situation

:21:04. > :21:06.where it has always been women, the women have had different kind of

:21:07. > :21:09.roles and it has caused embarrassment and it has cause

:21:10. > :21:12.awkwardness, let's just have something proper. I think it is also

:21:13. > :21:18.find sign of his devotion to the woman. They are very, very close. He

:21:19. > :21:21.depends on her emotionally, we saw in documentaries that brokers are

:21:22. > :21:29.the one last Sunday how she played a crucial role in the campaign, who

:21:30. > :21:32.was often there in the sidelines, chastising him, do not eat

:21:33. > :21:41.chocolate, that sort of way. They are very close. She has an input,

:21:42. > :21:45.she is critical of him, she minds him, she has ideas. He regards as

:21:46. > :21:49.someone very, very important in his life and she is not ashamed to make

:21:50. > :21:54.that public. He is not ashamed to make public. He would rather make it

:21:55. > :22:00.public. She will have a very prominent part to play. We are just

:22:01. > :22:06.waiting there in the ballroom of the Elysee for the reading out of the

:22:07. > :22:10.election results. As you were saying, that is an important part of

:22:11. > :22:14.the ceremony, isn't it? The reading out of the official declaration of

:22:15. > :22:18.the election results. Odyssey we all know them and we have known for

:22:19. > :22:22.quite a long time. I hope and I seem to remember that he only reads out

:22:23. > :22:30.round to results otherwise it would take a rather long time. He was the

:22:31. > :22:36.former Socialist Prime Minister, the one who drew up the European

:22:37. > :22:41.constitution which came to grief and has now been elevated in his elder

:22:42. > :22:47.years to president of the Constitutional Council which is

:22:48. > :22:51.extremely important body in France, in mind the constitution, it

:22:52. > :22:55.oversees the questions of whether laws are in conformity with the

:22:56. > :22:59.constitution. But also provides over at occasions like this, in a sense

:23:00. > :23:04.that he is the voice of the constitution. I hear music. Yes,

:23:05. > :23:09.here is the new president of France, Emmanuel Macron.

:23:10. > :24:53.The president of the Republic, last Sunday, the 7th of May, 2017,

:24:54. > :25:05.following an unusual electric campaign in many ways, you receive

:25:06. > :25:09.20,000,740 3000, 128 votes in the second round of the presidential

:25:10. > :25:23.election. An absolute majority of votes. Implementing articles six and

:25:24. > :25:25.seven of our Constitution, the cost issue -- Constitutional Council or

:25:26. > :25:32.the Kurds you elected president of the republic. The AIDS president

:25:33. > :25:41.elected with universal suffrage of the Republic. This Sunday 14th of

:25:42. > :25:47.May in the specific moment you are entering your mandate. We will give

:25:48. > :25:55.you your mess and so congratulations, Mr President of the

:25:56. > :25:59.Republic. In a phrase that takes full meaning, in order to be the man

:26:00. > :26:06.of 1's country, you have to be the man of your time. Man of our time

:26:07. > :26:17.and out of the U R. By your choice, your training, your pass and even

:26:18. > :26:23.your society position and by sovereign choice of the people, you

:26:24. > :26:28.are the man of our country. Responsible for representing it

:26:29. > :26:32.everywhere in the metropolis and overseas, in Europe and in the

:26:33. > :26:38.world. The president of the French republic, head of State, head of the

:26:39. > :26:44.Army 's, Armed Forces, president of our republic which is indivisible,

:26:45. > :26:52.secular, democratic and social, responsible for representing it and

:26:53. > :26:59.making it progress. In body and the values and the language and putting

:27:00. > :27:07.it together. And that is to say in this time, in this world, this new

:27:08. > :27:13.World where there great perspectives coming up against major risks for

:27:14. > :27:23.planet, the main importance than the difficulty of your mission leads the

:27:24. > :27:28.government which is self controlled by Parliament, in order to appease

:27:29. > :27:38.anger, you you repair injury, to eliminate doubt, to show the path

:27:39. > :27:45.and to embody hope. That is why, Mr President, your success will be the

:27:46. > :27:52.success of France and that is why we offer you for your mandate to keep

:27:53. > :27:53.the people close to you and yourself, are very warm wishes of

:27:54. > :28:09.success. TRANSLATION: Mr President of the

:28:10. > :28:11.Republic, we recognise you as being a great master of the National order

:28:12. > :28:29.of the Legion of honour. So your manual Macron verb being

:28:30. > :28:32.presented with the grand Cross of the Legion of honour which all

:28:33. > :28:36.presidents are given. -- Emmanuel Macron. He will not wear it, he is

:28:37. > :28:44.presented with it as the new president. And there, just signing

:28:45. > :28:52.the order of the Legion of honour. And you heard the saying to him to

:28:53. > :29:01.be the man of our country, you has to be the man of our times. And that

:29:02. > :29:07.is what he said, Emmanuel Macron is. TRANSLATION: Presidential as the

:29:08. > :29:11.cost issue Council, ladies and gentlemen, chairs, ladies and

:29:12. > :29:19.gentlemen, the French have chosen, as you reminded us, in the spirit of

:29:20. > :29:23.Congress and the whole world has looked at our presidential election,

:29:24. > :29:30.everywhere people were wondering whether the French would decide in

:29:31. > :29:36.turn to go back to the past, it solutions, whether they would break

:29:37. > :29:39.with the way the world is going, yield to democratic defiance. The

:29:40. > :29:45.feeling of division turning the buck to the lights. Or, on the other

:29:46. > :29:52.hand, with the embrace the future, give themselves collectively new

:29:53. > :29:55.momentum, reaffirming the values that have made of it are great

:29:56. > :30:04.people? On the 7th of May, the French chose and let us thank them

:30:05. > :30:10.here. The responsibility that they gave me is an honour and I measured

:30:11. > :30:17.its seriousness the world and Europe, more than ever, need France.

:30:18. > :30:24.They need a strong France, sure of its own destiny. They need a France

:30:25. > :30:30.which raises hide the voice of liberty and solidarity, they need a

:30:31. > :30:36.France which knows how to invade the future. The world needs what the

:30:37. > :30:45.French people, men and women, have always taught it, the daring of

:30:46. > :30:56.freedom, the requirements of the quality and a will for Fred Fred --

:30:57. > :31:03.fraternity. Frantz has belted itself and its culture, its social model,

:31:04. > :31:07.it has doubts in what it has made. -- France has belted itself. There

:31:08. > :31:12.will be to demand in my mandate. The first will be to give to be French

:31:13. > :31:16.people is confident of itself which, for too long, has been weakened. And

:31:17. > :31:26.I can reassure you, I have not for a moment thought things would stay as

:31:27. > :31:30.they worked in the 7th of May in the evening, it would be slow work and

:31:31. > :31:37.demanding but indispensable. It will be my role to convince the French

:31:38. > :31:42.people that our country wishing to be in difficulty with the sometimes

:31:43. > :31:48.contrary currents of the world, that they will use all its resources to

:31:49. > :31:51.be among the first of nations. I will convince our citizens that the

:31:52. > :31:56.power of France is not declining, that we are on the edge of the great

:31:57. > :32:02.Renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which make and

:32:03. > :32:09.will make the great powers of the 21st century. To do that, I will

:32:10. > :32:14.yield in nothing on the commitments made with respect to the French

:32:15. > :32:19.people. Everything which gives vigour to the France and prosperity

:32:20. > :32:23.will be implemented, work will be made free, companies will be

:32:24. > :32:30.supported, initiatives will be encouraged, culture and education,

:32:31. > :32:34.which gives rise to emancipation, creation, innovation, these will be

:32:35. > :32:38.at the heart of my actions. The French people, men and women who

:32:39. > :32:44.feel forgotten by this great movement in the world, they will

:32:45. > :32:49.have to see themselves better protected. Everything which forges

:32:50. > :32:53.our national solidarity will be reformulated, reinvented and

:32:54. > :32:57.equality are respectively incidence of life will be strengthened.

:32:58. > :33:07.Everything which makes France a country sure where it is possible to

:33:08. > :33:10.live without fear will be amplified, secularism, Republican centralism

:33:11. > :33:20.will be defended. The forces of law and order, our armies strengthened.

:33:21. > :33:27.The Europe that we need will be remoulded, relaunch because it

:33:28. > :33:31.protects us in the world to create something new is, our institutions,

:33:32. > :33:39.criticised by some, have two, in the eyes of the French people, get back

:33:40. > :33:43.the effectiveness which gives their longevity. I will do everything in

:33:44. > :33:46.my power for it to operate according to the spread of which it was

:33:47. > :33:53.created. And so that, I will ensure that our country has new democratic

:33:54. > :34:02.vitality and citizens will be listened to. They will see in that

:34:03. > :34:07.challenge, I will need all of you, there is policy of all the elites,

:34:08. > :34:13.political, economic, social, religious, all the bodies of the

:34:14. > :34:24.French nation, they will be called upon. We can no longer take refuge

:34:25. > :34:29.behind usages or habits which are sometimes pass their time. We have

:34:30. > :34:35.to get back to the deep meeting, the dignity of what today brings us

:34:36. > :34:42.together. To act in a just way, in an effective way for people. France

:34:43. > :34:48.is only strong if it prospers, France is only a model for the world

:34:49. > :34:53.if it is an example. Exemplary and that is my second requirement

:34:54. > :34:59.because we will have given back to the French for the future and ready

:35:00. > :35:05.to what they are, the world will pay attention to what transfers because

:35:06. > :35:11.we will be unable to, together, go beyond our fears and anxieties, we

:35:12. > :35:15.will, together, give the example of the people which knows how to affirm

:35:16. > :35:17.its values, its principles, which are those of democracy and the

:35:18. > :35:27.Republic. The efforts of my predecessors have

:35:28. > :35:33.been remarkable, on those lines, I am thinking of Charles de Gaulle,

:35:34. > :35:40.who worked to put France back in its position among the nations of the

:35:41. > :35:53.world. And thinking of Pompidou who made our country and industrial

:35:54. > :35:59.power, allowing the country to modernise, Jacques Chirac, who gave

:36:00. > :36:04.us the position of a nation which can say, now, to the pretensions and

:36:05. > :36:13.claims of those who want more. And Nicolas Sarkozy, who could deal with

:36:14. > :36:19.the financial crisis that struck the world so harshly. And Francois

:36:20. > :36:27.Hollande, a precursor, with the agreement in Paris on climate, and

:36:28. > :36:37.dealing with a world hit in Paris by terrorism. And the mistake in these

:36:38. > :36:43.last decades Boston has seen a deleterious -- often has seen a

:36:44. > :36:50.deleterious. Internal climate which has seen France not in favour,

:36:51. > :36:56.sometimes weakened by a national situation full of uncertainty, and

:36:57. > :37:05.sometimes worry. Ladies and gentleman, now, France has to do now

:37:06. > :37:10.rise to the moment. The divisions in our society have to be overcome.

:37:11. > :37:20.Whether economic, social, political maul. -- political or moral law.

:37:21. > :37:28.Because the world expects us to be strong and clairvoyant. We will

:37:29. > :37:36.assume all our responsibilities it's time it is necessary to answer the

:37:37. > :37:41.great crises of the time. Whether the migration crisis or the climate

:37:42. > :37:44.challenge, or is slippage to authoritarianism or the excesses of

:37:45. > :37:50.world capitalism, or of course terrorism. Nothing, now, can affect

:37:51. > :37:59.some people leaving the others unhurt. We all neighbours. France

:38:00. > :38:06.will always seek to be on the side of liberty, human rights, but always

:38:07. > :38:13.in order to build peace in time, over time. We have a major role to

:38:14. > :38:20.correct the excesses of the way the world is going and seek to defend

:38:21. > :38:27.freedom. That is our vocation. To do that, we need a more effective,

:38:28. > :38:31.Democratic Europe, more political, because as is the instrument of our

:38:32. > :38:39.power and sovereignty. I will work along those lines. Geography has

:38:40. > :38:46.significantly become smaller overtime has accelerated. We are

:38:47. > :38:49.going through a period of France the coming decades. We will not fight

:38:50. > :38:57.only for this generation but the future generations. It is up to us,

:38:58. > :39:06.all of us, that here and now, we have to decide on the world in which

:39:07. > :39:13.future generations will live. That, maybe, is our greatest before

:39:14. > :39:16.usability. We have to build the world -- our greatest

:39:17. > :39:19.responsibility. We have to build the world are young people deserve. By

:39:20. > :39:23.now the French people at this time are expecting a lot of me and they

:39:24. > :39:31.are right. The mandate that they have given me gives me to deal with

:39:32. > :39:38.absolute requirements and I am fully aware of that. Nothing will be

:39:39. > :39:41.yielded for facility or compromise. Nothing will weaken my

:39:42. > :39:45.determination. Nothing will make me renounce, give up defending at any

:39:46. > :39:53.time or anywhere, the higher interests of France. I will at the

:39:54. > :39:59.same time, seek constantly to reconcile and to bring together all

:40:00. > :40:08.French people. The trust that the French people have given me fills me

:40:09. > :40:11.with great energy. An intimate certainty, that together, we can

:40:12. > :40:17.write one of the most beautiful pages of our history in my actions.

:40:18. > :40:24.In those moments where everything can go awry, the French people have

:40:25. > :40:32.always delivered for the energy and discernment, the spirit of Concord,

:40:33. > :40:39.to deal with deep change. And that is a situation now. That is for this

:40:40. > :40:46.mission that, humbly, I will serve our people. I know that I can count

:40:47. > :40:50.on all our citizens to carry out the considerable and exhausting task

:40:51. > :40:54.which is ahead of us. And as far as I'm concerned, as of the seedling, I

:40:55. > :41:03.will start work. Long live the Republic, long live France. STUDIO:

:41:04. > :41:12.Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France applauded for that speak

:41:13. > :41:15.for -- speech. His wife is there. A remarkable speech saying France has

:41:16. > :41:21.doubted itself for decades, and he says his mission mission is to give

:41:22. > :41:27.them to people confidence in themselves. He said the power of

:41:28. > :41:34.France is not declining, we are on the edge of a great Renaissance. He

:41:35. > :41:38.was saying in this election, everyone had been wondering if

:41:39. > :41:48.France would go back to the past, all up to the future. He said France

:41:49. > :41:57.had chosen the future. He said the world and Europe now, more than

:41:58. > :42:02.ever, needs strong France, short of its own destiny, a France that knows

:42:03. > :42:09.how to invent the future, he said. Sterling words, then, from the new

:42:10. > :42:18.president of the fifth Republic. -- sterling words. Just 39 years old.

:42:19. > :42:22.Greeted their by politicians and officials as the new president of

:42:23. > :42:30.France. Our Paris correspondent was listening to that. Some striking

:42:31. > :42:41.words there from the new president? I was struck by the predominance of

:42:42. > :42:48.the prefix 're'. Relaunch, rejuvenated. He was going to take on

:42:49. > :42:55.the old and make it new. That is the only have ambition. It represents

:42:56. > :43:03.use, wrap Champs-Elysees energy, bigger Dick Tuimavave use, energy,

:43:04. > :43:12.He has a set of policies and systems which are good but need to be about

:43:13. > :43:18.and given the energy and purpose. That is the purpose he intends to

:43:19. > :43:26.give it. It was a powerful speech, as you are saying, looking forward

:43:27. > :43:31.and giving back. He felt confident that this is the word you picked up

:43:32. > :43:42.and I did too, a relevant answer France is around the corner. If only

:43:43. > :43:47.he and the country can find the energy and let go on to the economy

:43:48. > :43:55.and society, and culture, he talked about the need to open up Labour and

:43:56. > :44:01.other companies. And culture, innovation, are part of his idea. It

:44:02. > :44:05.is a hopeful message and comparisons are made to Barack Obama when he

:44:06. > :44:10.came to power eight years ago or so. Some ideas that hope is there and he

:44:11. > :44:17.represented. And we will have to see. He looks the part the part.

:44:18. > :44:22.Will he actually be able to harness this latent force in the country

:44:23. > :44:26.which he says is always there? We have to see. He remarked at the end

:44:27. > :44:37.there that France always, when it comes to change, he has found that

:44:38. > :44:40.determination and Concord. That is one interpretation, another is that

:44:41. > :44:44.France has been unable to cope with change. It hasn't learned to adapt

:44:45. > :44:48.and wait till the crisis arrives and then has a momentous and often

:44:49. > :44:54.violent change. That is what people fear could still be to come if he

:44:55. > :44:59.doesn't, at this crucial juncture, harness the benevolent forces of

:45:00. > :45:07.positive change which he claims he can see and knows how to put to

:45:08. > :45:10.work. He should prefer not just his predecessor Francois Hollande but

:45:11. > :45:15.previous presidents, talking about their achievements as leaders.

:45:16. > :45:23.Putting himself as leader in brackets, saying I am the new leader

:45:24. > :45:28.and will achieve this. There are people that want to be people of the

:45:29. > :45:32.fifth Republic and I attached to that institution. And he is two, he

:45:33. > :45:38.is not someone that wants to tear it down or turn it into a much more

:45:39. > :45:44.parliamentary democracy. He wants the president to be presidential,

:45:45. > :45:50.and as he said, in counterpoint to Francois Hollande, he does not want

:45:51. > :45:55.to be a normal president, rowers boxer-macro said he wants to be

:45:56. > :46:00.normal. He wants the president to have wrote this about him. He will

:46:01. > :46:04.not be giving regular interviews and will surround himself with a certain

:46:05. > :46:11.mystique of power. He thinks that is more effective. He'll make decisions

:46:12. > :46:17.that are his. This is something to watch ahead in the months ahead. It

:46:18. > :46:22.is such a personal mission that he has got going. And he is a man of

:46:23. > :46:28.such personal talent and brilliance, if you like, but there have been

:46:29. > :46:33.questions about whether he may risk being detached in his ivory tower

:46:34. > :46:38.surrounded by advisers giving orders because he has such self-confidence.

:46:39. > :46:42.And maybe he takes too much on himself and becomes a bit too

:46:43. > :46:51.detached. That is something to watch out for. But his recital was an

:46:52. > :46:55.attempt to put himself in that tradition and, to his predecessors,

:46:56. > :47:03.some of whom are people who was opposed to politically like Jacques

:47:04. > :47:12.Chirac, he was gracious, Chirac for Iraq, Sarkozy for tackling the

:47:13. > :47:15.banking crisis of 2008 and 2009 and foxtrot macro, even though he has

:47:16. > :47:23.differences on economic policy, he said his actions on terrorism and

:47:24. > :47:29.climate change were crucial. Thank you. I think that might have been Mr

:47:30. > :47:33.Macron on the phone saying he won't be in an ivory tower for the next

:47:34. > :47:38.few years. I'm sure you will chart his presidency with your usual

:47:39. > :47:44.style. Let's go to a friend journalist with and talking to

:47:45. > :47:51.throughout the morning. Marie, in a way, that speech was a

:47:52. > :48:01.-- in a way that was saying French people should have confidence in

:48:02. > :48:06.that self -- in themselves. How important was that? It's important

:48:07. > :48:11.to him to show he understands what the French were feeling and

:48:12. > :48:17.thinking. In this election and beyond that. He says, I know what

:48:18. > :48:21.you feel and what you think is important. Because as he is not a

:48:22. > :48:27.politician, he has an edge that all of the other candidates did not

:48:28. > :48:30.have. Because he has been into the civil society although he was a

:48:31. > :48:34.banker and quite wealthy. He talks to the French people on the

:48:35. > :48:44.standpoint that is very different from all the other presidents. What

:48:45. > :48:51.French people await from him is a new era, basically. The way he

:48:52. > :48:55.spoke, he said two things. One was I understand what you feel and think.

:48:56. > :49:01.I understand that you are pessimistic and I know that

:49:02. > :49:06.criticism is not what France is all about. So I will try to use all the

:49:07. > :49:13.strength that we having fun society to talk about the religious

:49:14. > :49:18.identity, a secular identity. I will try and convey all the forces of

:49:19. > :49:23.France at the moment and show you that France can be a bit more than

:49:24. > :49:28.what you think it is. He says, we are on the edge of a great

:49:29. > :49:33.runners-up. The power font is not -- other great runners-up. The power of

:49:34. > :49:37.France is not declining, it is boosting the French people. That is

:49:38. > :49:44.exactly what the French people want from him. A new man with new ideas,

:49:45. > :49:50.who feels that he has the energy, he is young, he has the energy of

:49:51. > :49:58.taking France out of its slumber, in a way. Obviously he did very well in

:49:59. > :50:09.the election, 65%, 20 million votes as we heard, read out there. To what

:50:10. > :50:15.extent, the people who didn't vote for him, is he regarded with

:50:16. > :50:18.cynicism and scepticism and disliked by those who didn't vote for him and

:50:19. > :50:28.voted for someone like Marine Le Pen? It's a mix of cynicism and

:50:29. > :50:33.disliked. He's seen the Front National and the far left party,

:50:34. > :50:37.describing him as two things. One, as a banker and as in the UK,

:50:38. > :50:46.bankers don't have good French press. It's a bit and relevant --

:50:47. > :50:51.irrelevant but it's sticking to him. And the other is baby Francois

:50:52. > :50:54.Hollande, the sun of boxer-macro who was leaving.

:50:55. > :51:11.He is seen as not new and if he is newcomer he is a banker and that is

:51:12. > :51:16.not good. So he is not being welcomed by everyone. The fact that

:51:17. > :51:21.he wants to change labour laws, and we know that French people are very

:51:22. > :51:24.attached to their social protection, very strong social protection. The

:51:25. > :51:31.fact that he wants to change it in order to make France more open to

:51:32. > :51:37.the world and over the companies who would like to settle in France, and

:51:38. > :51:44.all because it is so, take -- complicated to fire someone. He

:51:45. > :51:49.wants to change that. Although some people might see the positive angle,

:51:50. > :51:56.the difficulty they have to go through doesn't seem worth it.

:51:57. > :52:02.Because there is a prominent anti-globalisation movement during

:52:03. > :52:09.this election. The far right and the far left were basically talking --

:52:10. > :52:14.treading the same path in terms of anti-globalisation. Macron wants to

:52:15. > :52:18.open France to the world, have many companies leaving London because of

:52:19. > :52:24.Brexit, moving to Paris instead. He wants to attract people from London

:52:25. > :52:27.to Paris. That is maybe not well liked in France, big companies

:52:28. > :52:33.aren't well liked by many people. When Francois Hollande arrives, he

:52:34. > :52:41.said my enemy is financed, I don't like wealthy people. Macron is the

:52:42. > :52:45.contrary. He said not to be ashamed of working and making money, that is

:52:46. > :52:49.something that is normal, why shouldn't we aspire to better

:52:50. > :52:54.ourselves? And bettering ourselves means having good salaries. Why is

:52:55. > :53:00.it a problem in France to feel that you can achieve something and have a

:53:01. > :53:05.reward for that? So it is interesting to see how we had, for

:53:06. > :53:12.the last five years, a president who is very much from the socialist and

:53:13. > :53:17.one who was cold a baby Francois Hollande, who is much more in the

:53:18. > :53:23.centre, perhaps on the right-hand side of the political spectrum. It's

:53:24. > :53:26.fascinating watching him now, gladhanding, shaking hands with

:53:27. > :53:32.these politicians and well-wishers, almost all of them older than him.

:53:33. > :53:36.He is maybe not baby Francois Hollande but 39 years of age, he is

:53:37. > :53:45.strikingly young to be a president? I suppose before might make

:53:46. > :53:52.comparisons with JFK or Obama, the use coming into presidency. What is

:53:53. > :53:57.that like for France's image around the world? It is significant. 39,

:53:58. > :54:02.not even 40. That would at least have been some symbolic threshold.

:54:03. > :54:06.You will be 40 in the summer. That is important I think. One Tour de

:54:07. > :54:13.France people, they said we have a young president Ahmad is important.

:54:14. > :54:18.-- when I talked to French people. The people that tried to make a

:54:19. > :54:23.living in France are constructing and building. That is important, he

:54:24. > :54:26.is young, he has the demeanour of someone who is 39. That is important

:54:27. > :54:35.money have 60 or 70 and have demeanour. -- imported when you are

:54:36. > :54:42.60 or 70. He is from the generation that is open to the world. He is

:54:43. > :54:48.European, open-minded, as a 39-year-old can be. That is quite

:54:49. > :54:55.important. As you say, you can see him shaking hands and you can also

:54:56. > :55:03.see a few people with their mobile phones taking pictures. I haven't

:55:04. > :55:09.seen anyone try to take herself yet. -- try to take a selfie yet. I don't

:55:10. > :55:21.think that happened with Francois Hollande. But the complexion of this

:55:22. > :55:24.energy, with all the politicians, many decided not to stand for real

:55:25. > :55:30.action for this legislative election. They said they want to

:55:31. > :55:35.leave a place for the new generation. Is it a way to go down

:55:36. > :55:41.with style, thinking I won't be elected so I might as well give up

:55:42. > :55:43.and say it's for the good of the new generation? Maybe. But that some

:55:44. > :55:50.feel wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Emmanuel Macron. If it

:55:51. > :55:54.wasn't the old elephants, old dogs, saying I won't stand for election

:55:55. > :56:00.because I think that there is a new blood needed in France. It's not

:56:01. > :56:15.just the president to his young, and who started a movement towards the

:56:16. > :56:21.youngification, I'm not sure if that is an English word. He has chosen

:56:22. > :56:27.younger candidates, that is quite normal. He has forced the other

:56:28. > :56:31.parties to do exactly the same. There is already a few lines moving

:56:32. > :56:39.in the French republic. We can see his wife, Brigitte Trogneux, who is

:56:40. > :56:42.the subject of fascination because she is older than him, his drama

:56:43. > :56:50.teacher at school which is where he met her. She is wearing a blue

:56:51. > :57:01.designer suit. How important is she to him as he starts off as? He is

:57:02. > :57:08.attached to his wife, he wanted to show that and that he valued her

:57:09. > :57:14.input, and her reflection. That is completely new. Think about the

:57:15. > :57:18.wives of the former president such as Bernadette Chirac, Jacques Chirac

:57:19. > :57:29.cold her mummy. That doesn't sound like a very healthy relationship,

:57:30. > :57:35.and away. And she was by his side, but you understood that she was the

:57:36. > :57:41.man who wanted them enter the Elysee Palace. She wanted to be a

:57:42. > :57:46.politician herself but because of her man, she couldn't go too far

:57:47. > :57:50.after he left office in the started again to build a local career. But

:57:51. > :57:57.she was presented to do anything because of the man who she was with.

:57:58. > :57:59.There is a difference between Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte

:58:00. > :58:05.Trogneux. He is the young one, she already had a career in the

:58:06. > :58:19.Professor -- as -- a career as a professor. She has

:58:20. > :58:37.the edge on him, many people thinks she was the one that pushed him that

:58:38. > :58:45.-- to be a candidate. He said -- she said, think about how religion five

:58:46. > :58:49.years she is older, -- how we look in five years' time, she is older,

:58:50. > :58:53.now is the time for Emmanuel Macron to win because in five years' time I

:58:54. > :58:59.will be too old for that. That is one way to look at it. The other is

:59:00. > :59:05.that she has people saying she has created him.

:59:06. > :59:12.That as a way of seeing things critically. I'm not sure if that is

:59:13. > :59:25.a reality. I was an interesting documentary broadcast on Monday,

:59:26. > :59:30.when one of the -- you can see bits and pieces of their relationship, at

:59:31. > :59:34.the end of the debate against Marine Le Pen, he came out of the cooling

:59:35. > :59:39.debate asking people around him, could you please find me some

:59:40. > :59:46.chocolate? -- gruelling debate. She said no, don't eat junk food. And he

:59:47. > :59:52.said, I have water them. She is grounding him, and that is the ways

:59:53. > :59:54.he wants her to be perceived. Thank you so much Marie, a French

:59:55. > :00:02.journalist who has been watching this inauguration and the new

:00:03. > :00:06.president of France there, Emmanuel Macron, with invited guests there in

:00:07. > :00:13.the Elysee Palace, and politicians kissing, shaking hands, gladhanding

:00:14. > :00:20.and in his speech he said France is doubted himself and wants to give

:00:21. > :00:24.the French people confidence in themselves and his is the power of

:00:25. > :00:32.France is not declining. We are on the edge of a great Renaissance. So

:00:33. > :00:47.France has a new president. He is 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron. You are

:00:48. > :00:50.watching BBC News. So, big smiles as the pressing of the flesh and the

:00:51. > :00:55.kissing of the cheeks continues there in the Elysee and there seem

:00:56. > :00:59.to be hundreds of people there who wants just a couple of seconds with

:01:00. > :01:05.the new president of the fifth Republic. Our correspondent has been

:01:06. > :01:14.following it for us. She is close to the Elysee Palace. We are just

:01:15. > :01:19.outside because we are among the motorcades that are waiting to take

:01:20. > :01:25.the politicians and senior figures in French society away once this

:01:26. > :01:30.meeting with Emmanuel Macron is over, he will go into a lunch with

:01:31. > :01:37.family and, interestingly, it is very... It stand out how there is

:01:38. > :01:45.Emmanuel Macron shaking the hands of many figures prominent in French

:01:46. > :01:49.politics, senior inexperience to him but he at 39 years old is the man

:01:50. > :01:54.charged in a system that is not used about. It is used to having battle

:01:55. > :01:57.scars, the experience behind you to get into this position, you would

:01:58. > :02:04.hear the same coming up time and time again. And then suddenly, out

:02:05. > :02:11.of the blue, Emmanuel Macron is appointed economy minister under

:02:12. > :02:18.Francois Hollande, and on May 14, 2017, he is president of France.

:02:19. > :02:23.Still with me as the crowds are getting bigger outside the Elysee,

:02:24. > :02:26.is a French commentator. One particular figure that boxer-macro

:02:27. > :02:31.encounter delay, the president of the Constitutional Council, a very

:02:32. > :02:37.senior politician. You were struck by what he said to him?

:02:38. > :02:42.Traditionally, the president of the council is supposed to read out the

:02:43. > :02:46.official without of the presidential election. And pop following that,

:02:47. > :02:53.the presidency of the President-elect, officially begins.

:02:54. > :03:02.But he did far more than matter. He went on an elaborate and

:03:03. > :03:07.sophisticated speech praising Emmanuel Macron as a man of his

:03:08. > :03:14.time. He is a young politician with the energy and your vitality perform

:03:15. > :03:24.-- to reform France, he said. It has to be highlighted that he was the

:03:25. > :03:29.youngest Prime Minister ever at age 37 in the 1980s. Say he is familiar.

:03:30. > :03:36.He knows what it's like to be one of the juniors imposition of...

:03:37. > :03:42.Absolutely. With one junior being in charge of the country. How

:03:43. > :03:46.unexpected visit to see such familiar and experience bases in

:03:47. > :03:50.French politics, being positive in their approach to Macron, rather

:03:51. > :04:00.than being cynical about his lack of years and experience. That was

:04:01. > :04:04.initially in the incumbent presidents, Emmanuel Macron is the

:04:05. > :04:09.only one who hasn't served as an MP and that also stands out. It was

:04:10. > :04:13.also held against them when he started campaigning, somebody could

:04:14. > :04:23.never put himself up to any kind of election, not even a counsellor or a

:04:24. > :04:28.Meier -- mayor. That was not an advantage to start with. But

:04:29. > :04:32.gradually, he managed to turn this into an asset. As somebody who is

:04:33. > :04:37.not an ideologue and doesn't want any political party, even he served

:04:38. > :04:44.in Francois Larne's government, he was not a member of the Socialist

:04:45. > :04:47.party. He turned this advantage into a formidable assets to challenge the

:04:48. > :04:50.traditional left and right wing at the Terry system systems that have

:04:51. > :04:54.dominated French politics of decades.

:04:55. > :05:02.Thank you very much. Now, we believe that Emmanuel Macron I am being

:05:03. > :05:09.told, is about to exit the Elysee Palace, as he walks with his wife,

:05:10. > :05:15.Brigitte. So many greetings and messages of congratulations,

:05:16. > :05:27.Francois Hollande, the outgoing president, apparently said, by way

:05:28. > :05:33.of a good buy "bon Courage!" As he left the lazy palace for the last as

:05:34. > :05:42.president. -- as he left the Ely is a palace. -- Elysee Palace.

:05:43. > :05:49.After the inauguration, Emmanuel Macron briefly kissed her hand.

:05:50. > :05:55.After that inauguration we have a 21 gun salute ringing out from the

:05:56. > :06:02.military hospital on the other side of the River Seine. Then the new

:06:03. > :06:07.president will be driven to the Arc de Triomphe where he will lay a

:06:08. > :06:18.wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Emmanuel Macron, in his

:06:19. > :06:23.speech, at the inauguration said that everyone was wondering whether

:06:24. > :06:28.France would look back in this presidential election, all look to

:06:29. > :06:32.the future. He said that France had chosen the future and not the past.

:06:33. > :06:37.And that the world, and Europe, now more than ever needs a strong France

:06:38. > :06:44.that is sure of its own destiny. And if France but he said no -- knows

:06:45. > :06:48.how to invent the future. He spoke of the achievements of the previous

:06:49. > :06:58.presidents of the fifth Republic. Charles de Gaulle, Francois

:06:59. > :07:05.Hollande... He knows the challenges that he now faces because he wants

:07:06. > :07:09.to modernise France, as he said, for decades now, France has doubted

:07:10. > :07:16.itself. He said his job was to give the French people confidence in

:07:17. > :07:21.themselves. He said the power of France is not declining. We are on

:07:22. > :07:29.the edge of a great Renaissance, he said. A lot of fine words, of

:07:30. > :07:35.course. As you tend to get at inauguration speeches but there is a

:07:36. > :07:37.lot of hard work to do and he knows starting off with the National

:07:38. > :07:45.Assembly parliamentary elections, he needs to get a majority there. To

:07:46. > :07:52.help him effectively rule France. A tall order with his new movement, En

:07:53. > :07:55.Marche, he only created a year or so ago, scrambling to get candidates

:07:56. > :08:00.for the National Assembly elections. That is one of his jobs, he needs to

:08:01. > :08:04.form a government. We are hearing that he will appoint a Prime

:08:05. > :08:12.Minister probably tomorrow, and a new government on Tuesday. He is off

:08:13. > :08:16.to see Chancellor tee of Germany shortly as well, because he is, as

:08:17. > :08:21.we have been hearing, a very committed pro-European, who not only

:08:22. > :08:34.wants to make France stronger, but very much wants to make Europe

:08:35. > :08:39.stronger as well. There is huge security, as you would expect,

:08:40. > :08:42.surrounding this event. Some 1500 police officers, we are hearing,

:08:43. > :08:51.have been deployed around the Elysee Palace. Let's go back over to our

:08:52. > :08:56.French journalist who has been analysing what all of this means...

:08:57. > :09:00.A wonderful spectacle here at the Elysee Palace, will the new

:09:01. > :09:08.president be comfortable in his surroundings? He said that he wants

:09:09. > :09:13.to live in the Elysee Palace. That is quite unusual. Historically, the

:09:14. > :09:20.president of the Republic and before, they haven't really been at

:09:21. > :09:24.ease in this old palace. I think it was first used by Napoleon III and

:09:25. > :09:28.then the president of the Republic, many of them did not like them, at

:09:29. > :09:34.the start of the 19th century there was not a kitchen for the president,

:09:35. > :09:38.they had to take a meal from outside. The president of the fifth

:09:39. > :09:44.Republic, most of them kept their private apartment in Paris, and

:09:45. > :09:52.tried to basically make the Elysee Palace their offices, it's not easy

:09:53. > :09:56.most of the time. They had to live with it at the Elysee Palace most of

:09:57. > :10:02.the time. Francois Hollande, you will remember, said "I will be a

:10:03. > :10:10.normal president, normal people do not live in a palace". That is quite

:10:11. > :10:15.true, but when he basically separated from his partner, she kept

:10:16. > :10:20.the apartment so he had to live in the palace. Now, Emmanuel Macron has

:10:21. > :10:26.already said that he intends to live in the Elysee Palace. Although he's

:10:27. > :10:29.got an apartment in Paris, he also has a nice fellow elsewhere. We will

:10:30. > :10:38.see if he goes there at the weekend or not. -- a nice villa. Emmanuel

:10:39. > :10:43.Macron will have to do some restorations and restoring of the

:10:44. > :10:48.palace, redecoration is, there are a lot of rooms and corridors, it is

:10:49. > :10:55.not very practical or up-to-date. Although it is very grandiose and

:10:56. > :11:04.beautiful, and it is a palace, for a president, it is a bit of a paradox.

:11:05. > :11:10.It isn't very cosy, not as cosy as it looks. We will see how Brigitte

:11:11. > :11:15.Macron settles, the wife of the president is important as to how

:11:16. > :11:20.they live in the palace. Jacques Chirac's wife loved the Elysee

:11:21. > :11:25.Palace. It was not a popular opinion but she loved it. The couple are

:11:26. > :11:30.seen as the ones who were most at ease at living at the Elysee Palace.

:11:31. > :11:37.If Brigitte Macron makes the Elysee Palace her home, that is where

:11:38. > :11:43.Emmanuel Macron is going to be! We know that she is very influential on

:11:44. > :11:48.him. If she decides that is her home, that is where they will be. It

:11:49. > :11:53.is funny, we saw Francois Hollande give a talk to people of the Elysee

:11:54. > :12:01.Palace. There were some pictures, and there was a little salon. When a

:12:02. > :12:04.president of another Republic in 1985 came forward, he was apparently

:12:05. > :12:11.having a dalliance with his mistress. He died half naked in the

:12:12. > :12:18.Elysee Palace. It is a palace for the history and stories. -- full of

:12:19. > :12:28.history and stories. The president is keen on French history and he may

:12:29. > :12:35.find something a bit of interest in this historically charged palace.

:12:36. > :12:42.Not a bad place to live! Not at all! I think we are going to hear the

:12:43. > :12:48.band strike up. Peter full scenes inside of the Elysee Palace there.

:12:49. > :12:52.-- beautiful scenes. Wonderful splendour, and a great deal of pomp

:12:53. > :12:58.and ceremony for this inauguration which is nearly complete. The

:12:59. > :13:06.election results were read out a few minutes ago by Laurent Fabius, that

:13:07. > :13:09.was the moment, as he is chairman of the Constitutional Council, and a

:13:10. > :13:14.former Prime Minister. When he read out the results of the election

:13:15. > :13:18.where Emmanuel Macron beat the far right leader Marine Le Pen, that was

:13:19. > :13:23.the moment Emmanuel Macron assumed presidency at the age of 39. A few

:13:24. > :13:29.minutes earlier he had a meeting with the outgoing president Francois

:13:30. > :13:38.Hollande, and there he is. The new French president. He has been given

:13:39. > :13:43.the nuclear codes, we are told. He is now the French president, walking

:13:44. > :13:44.out of the Elysee Palace, taking salutes and walking along the red

:13:45. > :15:20.carpet. BAND PLAYS STUDIO: So, the new President of

:15:21. > :15:24.France... Reviewing the troops outside of the Elysee Palace in the

:15:25. > :15:30.sunshine now. Earlier it was raining. It was a rather miserable

:15:31. > :15:37.day. While that inauguration ceremony has been taking place

:15:38. > :15:41.inside of the Elysee, the sun is out and the sky is blue. Perhaps

:15:42. > :15:51.symbolic of the new presidency, who knows? The guns have now been fired

:15:52. > :16:05.outside with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Really, it is an

:16:06. > :16:11.extraordinary political story, the former investment banker and a

:16:12. > :16:17.former minister in Francois Hollande's government who some say

:16:18. > :16:21.is a protege of Francois Hollande, has really had a remarkable rise to

:16:22. > :16:31.power. Defeating Marine Le Pen in the election, 65% and 20 million

:16:32. > :16:35.votes. A decisive and overwhelming victory which, he said, was France

:16:36. > :16:51.looking to the future and not the past. No doubt that there are huge

:16:52. > :17:07.challenges that he now faces. SPEAKS FRENCH.

:17:08. > :17:23.So, in the background you can hear guns being fired, a 21 gun salute

:17:24. > :17:27.ringing out. And then after this, the new president will be driven to

:17:28. > :17:33.the Arc de Triomphe, where he will lay a wreath at the tomb of the

:17:34. > :17:42.unknown soldier. A lot of challenges, as I was saying, some

:17:43. > :17:45.daunting. High unemployment. Terrorism, of course, which has

:17:46. > :17:52.scarred France over the last couple of years. And caused such a loss of

:17:53. > :17:59.life. And, not least, trying to unite a country that the election

:18:00. > :18:03.showed is deeply divided. And trying to win over, I suppose, all of those

:18:04. > :18:09.who did not vote for him, who voted for Marine Le Pen or abstained,

:18:10. > :18:14.trying to get them behind him as part of his drive, what he called

:18:15. > :18:18.the renaissance of France. That is what he wants to do, to modernise

:18:19. > :18:24.France. To give it back confidence, he said. But he has stepped back

:18:25. > :18:34.into the Elysee Palace now. With his wife, Brigitte. It is a momentous

:18:35. > :18:44.day for France. A day of huge symbolism. The kind of ceremony that

:18:45. > :18:49.they love in France, as much as we do here in Britain. Because of

:18:50. > :18:52.course he is head of state of the fifth Republic. As well as the

:18:53. > :19:08.nation's political leader. Emmanuel Macron becomes France's

:19:09. > :19:13.youngest post-war leader, and the first to be born after 1958, when

:19:14. > :19:17.President Charles de Gaulle put in place the fifth Republic.

:19:18. > :19:21.Our correspondent Karin Giannone is in Paris...

:19:22. > :19:31.Not far from the leaves a palace, where this spectacle is unfolding?

:19:32. > :19:37.-- Elysee Palace. We can hear a 21 gun salute rumbling, shaking the

:19:38. > :19:42.buildings here by the Elysee Palace. I am pleased to say that we are

:19:43. > :19:51.joined by the Telegraph economist and Elizabeth Muto, you were here as

:19:52. > :19:54.a junior reporter covering the inauguration in 1981? Yes, I

:19:55. > :20:03.followed that campaign, almost my first job. An extraordinary scene as

:20:04. > :20:11.he brought in historic figures, the photographer who took the pictures,

:20:12. > :20:15.and all sorts of people who had never seen a left-wing government

:20:16. > :20:20.for 23 years. It was impressive and very moving. He took it in his

:20:21. > :20:25.stride. Looking at the pictures, does anything change about the

:20:26. > :20:28.ceremony itself? The route to this presidency has been so

:20:29. > :20:34.unconventional and yet we have the full patriotically but of France

:20:35. > :20:38.right there? First of all, it doesn't change. The media invite

:20:39. > :20:44.more people at the inauguration for the Elysee Palace there run does now

:20:45. > :20:49.he has 400 people, that is very few. But apart from that, because he is

:20:50. > :20:56.young, he is conscious of the fact he has this celebrity. At the

:20:57. > :21:03.Louvre, he crossed on the night of his victory, all alone wearing an

:21:04. > :21:10.old-fashioned three quarters coat. He was copying the very staged way

:21:11. > :21:18.of the inauguration of the previous president. I am very young but I can

:21:19. > :21:22.do this. I understand how solemn the occasion is, and it was a rebuke to

:21:23. > :21:29.Francois Hollande, who never felt that there was a need for pomp and

:21:30. > :21:36.anything like it. He's the first president to be born since the

:21:37. > :21:45.beginning of the fifth Republic? Yes, I am counting back, he was a

:21:46. > :21:53.young president, born much earlier. He has never known anything else. If

:21:54. > :21:58.you go through the French press, all of this celebration and solemnity of

:21:59. > :22:01.the moment, the power of the presidency and thoughts have

:22:02. > :22:05.returned immediately. There hasn't been a breath before they are

:22:06. > :22:12.turning to his challenges. No pause on reflection or celebration

:22:13. > :22:18.personally. It is straight into worrying about legislative elections

:22:19. > :22:26.on June the 11th? It is key, can he govern or does he need straight off

:22:27. > :22:29.the bat? We have a Prime Minister with a political opponent, which

:22:30. > :22:36.would hamstring him every minute. Right now, he is... Last week,

:22:37. > :22:39.actually, he has been arguing and negotiating with various parties to

:22:40. > :22:44.bring over from the right and the left more moderates of each party.

:22:45. > :22:51.He has been demanding of them that they should leave the party

:22:52. > :22:53.partisanship, and give back their party cards and become members of

:22:54. > :23:09.one Marsh, -- En Marche. He has 229 MPs,

:23:10. > :23:15.the largest group but not the majority. Now, the right can change

:23:16. > :23:24.in the next five weeks, that is counted at 160. We are talking about

:23:25. > :23:32.the Republicans. They could have anywhere between 20 and 40. The left

:23:33. > :23:39.would be shattered, because many socialists are within En Marche and

:23:40. > :23:44.the Socialist party machine, and if he does not control what is going on

:23:45. > :23:49.with the elections, he cannot rule. And briefly, there is a big military

:23:50. > :23:55.component to this event. It reminds us that the president is in charge

:23:56. > :23:58.of the army and Armed Forces. He does not have to bring questions to

:23:59. > :24:03.Parliament or Congress away the American president does. The French

:24:04. > :24:10.like it that way. The French are aware that you need decisive no and

:24:11. > :24:18.it is a country that is perfectly accepted by the left and right. And

:24:19. > :24:23.Elizabeth, thank you. Emmanuel Macron after the inspection of the

:24:24. > :24:28.guard, he is going to go through the gardens of the Elysee Palace and

:24:29. > :24:36.then onto the Champs-Elysees where he will then go to the Arc de

:24:37. > :24:43.Triomphe. Thank you. The ceremonials there at the Elysee Palace. Drawing

:24:44. > :24:48.to a close. France has a new president, Emmanuelle Macron

:24:49. > :24:51.inaugurated as the new president of France at the age of 39 -- Emmanuel

:24:52. > :24:53.Macron. Time now for a look at some of the

:24:54. > :24:58.other main news stories of the day. Most of the health organisations

:24:59. > :25:01.in England and Scotland that