French Presidential Inauguration BBC News Special

Hello, welcome to viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News this

sworn in as the new President of sworn in as the new President of

France, following his election victory last weekend. He secured 65%

of the vote against Marine Le Pen. His term of office begins with a 21

gun salute at the Elysee Palace. Followed by the official handover

from his predecessor, Francois Hollande. That show you the scene

live as the preparations are well underway. Emmanuel Macron will be

sworn in as the next president of France. A damp, drizzly morning in

central Paris as you can see. Many of Macron's supporters already there

out on the streets. The man who was about to become France's new

president, officially to be inaugurated, not yet 40 years old.

Never even contested an election before this year. It really has been

an astonishing year in French politics. Emmanuel Macron, the

young, fresh phrased, Road business, ardent European. About to be

inaugurated -- pro business. He trounced his rivals in the

elections, a resounding vote in support of a man who only set up his

En Marche party about a year ago. We are already hearing, by the way,

just you know, -- just to let you know, that we will expect him to

appoint his Prime Minister to morrow. We have heard that in the

last few minutes. The Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow and the

government will be formed on Tuesday. That is what sources close

to Emmanuel Macron are telling us. That is the scene there in central

Paris, as we await the formalities of the inauguration and, of course,

the French do these things with wonderful and grandeur and let's go

to my colleague who was there watching it all unfold. A rather

drizzly morning there in Paris, we can tell from your umbrella? Yes,

the pomp and grandeur is currently being rained on rather heavily. It

is the start of the last few minutes. It has been security

lockdown here. There are hundreds of police, journalists, all along this

avenue. The satellite trucks from all over the world, and you can see

just behind me, just behind of the main gate -- in front of the main

gate of the palace, a crowd is gathering. We have seen his wife's

arising out of the car. The red carpet is rolled out in the

courtyard. The journalist and dignitaries are there and they wait

for the ceremony now. First, Emmanuel Macron will have a private

meeting with the outgoing president, Francois Hollande. That meeting has

no cameras, it is the transfer of power. The formal handover during

which Emmanuel Macron will be given the nuclear code. That is all part

of the transition of power. Then they will emerge, the former,

outgoing president, Francois Hollande, will leave the building.

He will leave the Elysee Palace for the last time. After that, there

will be the formal inauguration of Emmanuel Macron. He will become

president of France. It is extremely formal, a familiar sight for the

French over the generations, what hasn't been conventional of course,

is the arrival to this position of Emmanuel Macron, after just 13

months in charge of his En Marche political movement. Last April was

when he quit his job and decided to stand down as an unelected economy

minister in the government of Francois Hollande, the outgoing

president, to form this En Marche centrist movement taking policies

from left and right and it was very soon after that but he declared his

ambition -- soon after that he declared his ambition to run. Many

say it wasn't skill but also like that got him. It was really the most

opportune to political moment with the downfall, financial

mismanagement scandal, and the Socialist party, the dominant force,

choosing a candidate for President election which was from the far left

and did not attract mainstream support. Let's talk about this some

more with a commentator and journalist here in Paris.

How France come to terms with how sudden this arrival to power is? I

think it took an awful lot of people by surprise. Somebody who came from

absolute obscurity and managed to rise to power and ethically secure

one of the most powerful executive positions on earth and Emmanuel

Macron one in the most convincing circumstances possible as well. I am

wondering if this may indeed be the arrival of Emmanuel Macron himself.

Given the amount of police motorcyclists. There we are. This is

the moment Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Elysee Palace. A big cheer

from the crowd there. His wife is already inside, she has made the

journey along the red carpet but Macron supporters waving the French

flag as he arrives for this enormous day. Before he has even reached the

age of 40. Yes, indeed. You have talked us through... It is actually,

Francois Hollande is waiting. The two will have the meeting.

You have doctors through the handover of power, then will follow

the official inauguration that will happen at the ballroom of the Elysee

Palace, but on the previous Republic, it has happened at

Versailles effectively and Emmanuel Macron will be accompanied by senior

officials, including the Prime Minister, and the presidents of both

chambers of parliament, the lower house and indeed the Senate. And

interestingly a solemn march will be played, Emmanuel Macron is a proper

music but then he will put some thought into a choice of his musical

piece. The ceremony, the actual ceremony will take place then.

Emmanuel Macron has got out of the car and is making his way along the

red carpet into the Elysee Palace. For the handover of power.

Walking towards the outgoing president, Francois Hollande. Seen

as the protege of a manual Macron, giving him his break in politics,

putting him first as an adviser and then as a economy minister,

unelected economy Minister in the socialist government. So very

symbolic day, this relationship between the two men, complicated

one, resulting in this literal handover of power from one man to

the other. Well, there you see the grandeur inside the Elysee Palace as

the two men walk up the stairs, the outgoing president Francois Hollande

and the incoming President Emmanuel Macron. And we will would just

hearing their the formal handover of power, which includes Mr Macron

being given the French nuclear codes there. We were seeing Francois

Hollande, who, in some ways has been seen by many political commentators

in France as a political failure, he did not run in this election but

Macron was his economy Minister between the years 2014 and 2016, in

some ways Mr Hull's protege and now Francois Hollande is handing power

literally inside the Elysee Palace. -- Mr Hollande's protege. As the

band and the music begins. And our correspondent Hugh Schofield

joins us from Paris. It really is an extraordinary

political moment, this, isn't it, for France? This young man, he was

not emerged from nowhere, he had been economy Minister, setting up

his own party only a year ago and now president. Yes, and what it

makes me reflect on how brilliantly the French education system can be

when it sort of six to pick out brilliant individuals and promote

them through the ranks because he is, in a way, the classic product of

an egalitarian education system. The problem is it only works in some

cases, it does work absolutely superbly. He came from a

middle-class background in the Providence but his audience was

spotted by people at school, in fact, at a religious school, private

school. He then got selected and pushed through the regular elite

educational, other educational system to join the ranks of the

administrative elite of the country and from there, as we know, with his

eye on power and his eye on his own destiny, because I think he's a man

who really does believe in his own destiny, he did what he has done.

And it is a remarkable achievement which one has two hand to him. I

think the other interesting thing today about today which you have all

alluded to is this relationship with Francois Hollande and we have seen

in the last week, a slight tension between the two men because on the

one hand, Francois Hollande is quite clearly very eager to sort of up the

signal that his presidency was not a disaster because look, someone from

my presidency is continuing and is carrying on, has taken on the

mantle. What I set out to do goes on, kind of thing. But of course

Emmanuel Macron find that legacy slightly irksome. Much though I

think he likes Francois Hollande and certainly owes a lot, he does want

to keep his distance from Francois Hollande, in particular in the light

of the upcoming parliamentary elections, he does not want to be

seen to be the anointed successor. Particularly we saw it last week

about ceremony at Arc de Triomphe after the election, Francois

Hollande bearing on the clock on the back, my spiritual son as it were,

Emmanuel Macron saying thank you, yes, I would rather be my own man

now. But, of course, from today it is the power skimpily, manual Macron

is the president. Francois Hollande will be the man who is forgotten. It

in US Marconi 's name as a result of what has been regarded as a failed

presidency. The sermon today which is lavishly beautiful to watch,, the

hard work begins straight afterwards. He has to form a

government very quickly, appointed Prinosil, which might be as soon as

tomorrow, we are hearing, he has go to be meeting Angela Merkel very

seen to talk about Europe. We have this error may now, -- ceremony. A

meeting behind closed doors, security operations will be

discussed, things that we do not know about, that the president needs

to handle to the other, the codes for the nuclear. And then will be

the speech, the ceremony of anointing him as Grand Master of the

order of the Legion of honour, that goes with all presidents, deep

recession on Champs-Elysee and then we will get down to business. The

name of the Prime Minister either today or tomorrow. Will this be a

character of the political right? That is what is the big question

because in drawing up of his list of candidates for the Parliamentary

elections, quite clearly there is a bias in that list towards the left

and as Macron was, someone who is above that old divide, it is quite

important to him to redress that and I think his inclination is to

appoint someone who is from the centre-right. Maybe do some from the

opposition, someone who is on the centuries wing of that party,

Republicans, he might be Macron compatible. That would be his ideal,

various names circulating. The former mayor of Strasberg, these are

the kind of people, a centrist MEP, these are the names that are

circulating at the moment. It will be very important because it was

then that the signal as to how he conceives of his party and how, what

hopes the house for turning that into a majority in parliament. Then

of course this is this visit tomorrow to Germany. He had said

before that his first trip abroad would be to visit serving military

men and women abroad, but it seems that has been put off and the trip

to Germany will come first which will be tomorrow. That is vital, of

course. Hollande went to see Merkel on the day of his inauguration and

on that plane, by the way, was a young Emmanuel Macron he was his

adviser. The plane got hit by lightning coincidently. Another sign

of the start of the Hollande presidency. It is Macron who will go

tomorrow. The relationship with Merkel is good to be fascinating to

watch because we have arriving now somebody who is incredibly

pro-European, who really wants to get back the Franco Germany

relationship, the golden years, to try and rebuild that element of

trust. His deal, his budding rugby I will bring France down the road of

reform, economic reform, if you, Germany, bring Germany down the road

of, for example, making the desert of all European countries neutralise

and so on, that way of building Europe from the top down. That is

the bargain he is going to want to bring to Angela Merkel tomorrow. It

is a very important meeting. Whew, just the with us because we are

seeing these magnificent pictures from central Paris from the Elysee

Palace. The two men, as you are saying, outgoing president Hollande

and incoming president Emmanuel Macron, exchanging the nuclear

missile launch codes, amongst other security procedures that I have been

going through at the moment. Then we gather President Hollande will leave

the palace and the result of the election is read out inside the

Elysee, a moment that marks the actual assumption of power and

Emmanuel Macron is then presented with what is effectively his chain

of office, that heavy golden necklace, mounted on a red cushion.

We have been seen pictures of it actually. That makes him the Grand

Master of the National order of the legion, apparently he will not put

it on. He is presented with it. I wonder if I can ask you this, is

France, the election of a manual Macron, this very young dynamic

politician, is it feeling good about itself because I suppose there has

been a sense in some ways of France stagnating economically with a lot

of problems and divisions, now he has been elected with this huge

chunk of the boat, and it feeling better about itself. -- huge chunk

of the vote. Goodness knows there have been moments of false hope in

the past. I think part of the rise of populism issued to the sense that

with every election everyone gets whipped up into a sense of a new

dawn and things being resolved and they never are. And that just create

cynicism about the establishment politics and once again we do have

something of that feeling of optimism hitting the country. This

time body by someone who is more genuinely new and young and has been

transgressive in a way by taking an the sacred cows of the old parties

by saying he's going to do stuff and apparently not minding if it is

unpopular. I think we've all been struck by how open he is unwilling

to insist on the challenges that emissaries. -- he is willing to

insist on the changes that are necessary. He says life is going to

be tough, there are tough decisions ahead. I think that plain speaking

is quite refreshing and gives people a feeling that maybe this time we've

got someone who is prepared to undertake the necessary reforms. I

don't think anyone is foolish enough to think that this is somehow going

to change things radically. We know there are tough times ahead. We know

there are other of elections coming up, the third round of the

presidential elections, because he has got to win a majority that. The

fourth round, potentially, on the street. Everyone is expecting a fee

does go ahead with his reform plans for pedigree changing the labour

laws, he said he would do by degree, not by a vote on parliament in the

law, by decree, that will certainly create some sort of backlash in the

Austin. There is an optimism which is quite significant now, the French

have been so long tarnished, politically and what they call the

Anglo-Saxon media has been the kind of dead ducks of the Western world.

Now they have this sense, hang on a sec, things are moving, Trump in

America. Trump has been lambasted by the while's media, seems to have a

good thing to say about somehow be light and darkness changing of

modern politics. We are in the light and they are in the dark. We are the

ones with the new hopeful leader who is got ideas and dynamism and youth

and education and culture and openness in foreign languages and

all the rest of it and that looks good. We feel good. He is using our

language, he is talking of human rights, as the mission of France, of

its role in the baulk and suddenly the French feel actually, we can

hold our hands high against the now. There is this moment where they are

asking, I think, in the blue of favourable baulk attention which is

something they are not particular use to. -- world attention. We think

the car that reversed up to the engines of the red carpet. I am

guessing that is the carpet takes away President Hollande. A rather

modest vehicle actually for the outgoing president. I'm straw he is

not used to being driven in a small vehicle. How will France remember

him, as a failure or somebody who did his best? Just on that car

business, we all remember this moment five years ago where Sarkozy

handed over to Francois Hollande, Sarkozy came down the steps to the

car and very poignantly and significantly and rudely maybe

thought Francois Hollande did not accompany him down the steps to the

car. This was seen as a real robust and a sign of how Hollande had no

time at all four Sarkozy. Hollande said he regretted that. If that is

not the field to the day, they could not have the politeness to accompany

the upcoming president to the car. How will it be seen? I think

inevitably as a failure. That is justified because I remember over

and again towards the beginning of this Hollande presidency, Francois

Hollande going on television and saying with a solemn eye, staying at

the pose -- staring at the people of France, I will bring down

unemployment, I will be judged on my ability to bring down unemployment.

Unemployment has gone up. It is the biggest curse on this country's

social and political life. It has not been addressed. I think that

must therefore go down as the big black mark on his presidency. There

are people like Macron calling the new ways of tackling unemployment,

there are other countries in Europe that have done it by freeing up the

labour market. There are people on the left, the far left who are

saying there are other ways to do it as well. He said he had the

solution, he said he would be judged on whether or not he brought

unemployment down. He has not. It has gone up. I think you must be

judged on the very like he shone on himself at the very start. -- the

very light. We are waiting as the two men continue their discussions

and the transfer of those nuclear codes and that is the scene there in

the splendour of the Elysee Palace and we will see them walk down those

stairs. We are not quite sure how long it is going to Kate, to be

honest. One more question about Emmanuel Macron. He said, an Brexit,

he's going to be pretty tough. He is very much a pro-European, he is

absolutely behind the European project and how tough do think he is

going to be on the United Kingdom when it comes to the Brexit

negotiations because France and Germany are the crucial nations in

the EU? He is quite remarkably pro-European and he speaks in a

language, one that is almost forgotten, because of the kind of

problems at the last four years and the apologetic tone that has crept

into politicians way of speaking about the European Union, even

pro-European politicians here in France and Germany somehow do not

feel that they can laud the enterprise any more because it has

gone so badly wrong. That is not Macron's feeling at all. This is a

remarkable thing and it has a feature, we just need to grasp the

changes that are needed to bring it forward. -- it has a future. The

enterprise of Europe is at a turning point, which we've kind of analyse

already. Either it goes forward big-time or it goes back time. He is

someone that feels it has to go forward with major reforms now. To

integrate properly, to have a central bank, to have controlled the

European budget and so on. That is what he wants. He was to rebut this

relationship with Germany and that is what is going to make life

difficult for Theresa May and the British because he's going to want

to speak on Bar is a Europe that is unified, strong and very, very

confident. There is another way of looking about which is perhaps more

favourable to Britain wishes to a united Europe which is a Europe

which is able to negotiate more openly with less of a complex, less

of a fear of setting an example to other countries, other populist

moment around the continent. His view an Brexit is that it is a

disaster for Britain and there is absolutely no reason to give Britain

any favours at all four taken mysteries. For the moment, thank you

very much. For taking this choice. The guards outside the Elysee either

with their bayonets and Emmanuel Macron, the 39 euros, new president

of France, inside talking to outgoing president, Francois

Hollande. -- 39 years old. After the formal inauguration, the new

president Emmanuel Macron will inspect the troops behind the

palace, there will be a 21 gun salute and the new president will

leave the Elysee and visit Arc de Triomphe. And the tomb beneath it is

the unknown soldier. Let's go back to corresponded to as close to the

Elysee. A rather wonderful day to do that, apart from the rain.

Absolutely a moment of history. The rain has eased now. We are close the

police will let us get. Of course the security is enormous. France

still under a state of emergency following the attacks of 2015.

Really the number of journalists is huge as well here. Please in general

is in the Street only. Just a few minutes ago we saw a flotilla of

police motorcycles and cars as Emmanuel Macron got out of the car

and went in to meet Francois Hollande. Those two men in a private

meeting right now, that is a meeting of about half an hour, you are

talking about it, that is the handover of power, they are having a

fairly formal conversation with the handover also of France's nuclear

codes. We also saw them together at the beginning of the week. It was a

victory Europe Day commemorations on mediate. The two men went to the Arc

de Triomphe then. It was a public holiday, we watched it happen. It

was Emmanuel Macron's first outing as President-elect and he stood

side-by-side with the outgoing presidents, Francois Hollande on

that day on Monday. But today when the next see him, he will be in the

process of becoming France's actual president and Francois Hollande will

walk along the red-carpet, get into the car, the comes out of that

meeting, and leave the Elysee Palace for the last time as president and

now we will have the inauguration ceremony in the ballroom. The

genocide there, they are waiting for that meeting to come to an end. --

the journalists are there. My guess still with me. What sense did we get

when we saw Francois Hollande on Monday next year Emmanuel Macron? ,

as the relationship, over the past relationship between them and how it

is now, many have seen it as a betrayal of the owl going president,

a manual, saying he is forming his own party, taking the reins of power

from his formal Master? It has to be said that on the face of it, the

relationship between a Emmanuel Macron and former President Hollande

in a few moments time, it was quite good. President Hollande who brought

in Emmanuel Macron festival as his economic adviser and then as is a

economy minister. But it has to be said that the economy minister job

was more down to the Prime Minister than Hollande himself. He

effectively was brought in, Macron was brought in as a money man into

Holland's government. It was in the final year of Hollande's presidency

and a lot of people thought that it was far too late to do anything

about a failing presidency in terms of economic matters. But Macron

introduced liberalising policies which upset the socialist camp and

led to its division and indeed pave the way and a sense for her centrist

path to power. What relationship do we expect him to have with the main

political parties? His own formal party, the Socialists and the

central right party? Technically the En Marche is very recent indeed,

more than a year ago he started up his movement. He resigned from

Hollande's cabinet, it took a lot of guts, he started off with no base at

all and he managed to create one of his own. Since his victory speech,

he has rebranded his party and he will have the immense task now is

recruiting people. He made it abundantly clear throughout his

campaign, he was neither of the left or the right and he would be seeking

577 candidates from the right and be left to join his new voting bloc to

represent him in the National Assembly. That is the focus. Looking

for the papers, they seem ready to be looking ahead to that challenge,

that that husband Larry Little respite, very little time to

celebrate and enjoy the moment, he is eagerly having to focus on

getting some MPs, getting a majority in parliament so he can carry out

the things that he has pledged to do. Very much so. Today the

magnificent spectacle of the inauguration will be effectively the

last day of celebration and the festivities will effectively end by

Monday morning when Emmanuel Macron will have to get stuck into the

nitty-gritty of governance and indeed realise, apply, start

applying his ambitious political programme and then indeed realise

the weight of office that is out of them. Thank you. As we wait for an

Emmanuel Macron and Francois Hollande to emerge from that

meeting. Let us just go back to Ben in London. There is the car that

will take the outgoing president Francois Hollande away for the last

time from the Elysee Palace. He will walk along that red-carpet and step

into that rather small car by his standards. If you are used to the

vehicles of the French Presidency, that is quite a modest one. That is

the vehicle that will take him away from the Elysee after he has

transferred power to Emmanuel Macron, a process which is under way

at the moment. And Emmanuel Macron, amongst other things, is being given

the French nuclear codes and then the election result will be read out

inside the Elysee Palace. That is the formal moment when Emmanuel

Macron becomes the French president. Really an extraordinary achievement

that this 39-year-old newcomer, he was in a commonly minister in

Francois Hollande's government, a man who is created his own political

movement, En Marche, unknown to the world a year or two ago but has now

let to Providence and is now going to be -- take to the helm of the

world's fifth-largest economy. A country that is a founding member of

the European Union and Emmanuel Macron is a fervent pro-European. So

his stance during the Brexit negotiations is going to be

particularly interesting to see. Emanuel McConnell, a former

investment banker, who is promised to bring in a wide-ranging reforms

to the French economy. -- Emmanuel Macron. Many have seen a stagnating

in recent times. We can bring in a correspondence for French media who

can talk to us I think. How significant do you think this is,

this moment when we see a manual McConnell take the presidency? Is

splendour, it's very symbolic moment when the power, there is no discover

new witty of power, it is one president going directly to the next

and this one is going to be very different from the one that was five

years ago between Francois Hollande and so cosy. At the time, it was not

done in a very good spirit, in a way. Sarkozy lost, he wanted to be

re-elected, he lost his adversary on the left.

This time he says it will be almost joyous occasion, he didn't have the

credentials to try be elected again and decided not to run. Emmanuel

Macron was elected and he used to be his minister, it's like passing the

power, he said to a friend. Some of the same political family, almost.

So it will be a friendly occasion, of course a very ceremonial and

official ceremony but we saw already that Francois Hollande wants to have

a paternalistic approach to it. We saw that when the two men were

together on the 8th of May, and after that last week, so basically

the ceremony has things that has to happen but there is some average for

the two man. They can make the ceremony what they want -- there is

some leveraged for the two man. Emmanuel Macron is a new man who is

not a politician by trade. How will he want to put his print on this

very significant ceremony? We are seeing this wonderful pictures from

the Elysee, with guards who will do a 21 gun salute. To what extent do

you think that France is still a country divided? We have shown -- as

was shown by the election, although Emmanuel Macron won a sizeable

majority of 65%, there are deep divisions that he has to work hard

to overcome? Indeed. He was elected largely. But the person behind him

was Marine Le Pen. You have these people that want to save the

Republic, they were there but between the first and second round,

but it was not as big in 2002 with Jean-Marie Le Pen versus Jacques

Chirac. There was not this is a relation of people as people coming

together, whoever they wanted to come together around to save the

Republic. During the first and second round, there was criticism of

Emmanuel Macron Marathon 2002 criticism of Jacques Chirac was not

exactly allowed. There was the Southern splendour as one critic

said. He has been elected largely. -- sudden splendour. They didn't

want to have the Front National in the Palace so they didn't vote for

him by choice, and some people, a lot of people decided not to vote at

all. In terms of the voting rating, Emmanuel Macron arrived first, then

spoiled ballots, and then Marine Le Pen. The day afterwards was elected.

There were people protesting against Emmanuel Macron as president. There

was something important about that. It happened in 2007, when Sarkozy

was elected. There were people in the street pops protest against

Nicolas Sarkozy. There is something, some would argue, that is being lost

in the respect that you have to give to the function of president. If,

even before being installed as president, he can be challenged, you

can say of him, I don't want him, I want him out. Get rid of him. He was

just elected freshly. So some people are very wary of him. In the first

round, John Luke Melenchon was in the far left and did a -- his

new-found supporters really don't agree with the programme of Emmanuel

Macron and in particular, his labour law reform, the liberal law reform.

This far left movement really gathered momentum for the first

round. So he has a very divided country indeed, to take care. It is

not just the far right but also far left who have waken up for this

election. As the press said just after the first round, there is a

difference that is doing well, voting for Emmanuel Macron, and the

France that is doing badly, that's the France that voted for Marine Le

Pen. It's a bit more complicated than that. It is not just that

people want a nationalistic approach of the country's problem and want to

vote for the far right, that would be easy enough to understand, but it

is much more fragmented. It will be quite complicated, because Emmanuel

Macron doesn't want to be Francois Hollande number two. He doesn't want

to realise that he doesn't -- he doesn't want the presidency to pass

by and realised he didn't do anything. He is already displeasing

a lot of people, so it is going to be hard for him. But even now he is

not a politician by trade, I think is quite prepared to do what he has

to do and even being quite unpopular for what he has to do. Because he

knows in the end that five years from now, what is going to count for

most people, people who didn't agree with him before he started before

will never agree with him. He knows that even in five years, the people

he won't need to convince other people who are waiting for results

and that is the way he wants to start his presidency. He wants to do

things very quickly, he said himself that he wants to change without even

going through Parliament at the summer. He wants to do things that

are radical, maybe that's a bad word, but important, he wants to

change the face of France in a way. That is bound to be unpopular but at

the same time French people say they want change. So we will see how they

accept the change that the new president is presenting. Thank you.

Just tell us, we are seeing the wonderful preparation for the

ceremony at the Elysee Palace. It will all get away after Mr Macron

has finished his meeting with the outgoing president, Francois

Hollande. He will be presented with a ceremony and the official

documents, he will be officially president. We always think, in

Britain, we do ceremonial rather well but in France they do it very

well too. How important is it to the French people and the French

republic that there is this great ceremonial surrounding the

inauguration of the new president? It is quite important. Even though

we don't have kings any more, we do like the ceremonial of power still.

It is something that is still very intriguing. The Palace is a grand

seem to do that in. You can see the length of this break -- red carpet,

and the palace, and the ballroom is very beautiful as well. After he has

spoken at the Elysee Palace and after the position of power is down,

he will go at the Champs-Elysees, which is dubbed the most beautiful

avenue of the world. That is quite important that the French president

is able to go down in the most beautiful avenue in the world. That

is not an significant for the French people. It is possible -- that is

significant for the French people. The night he was elected, it was

possible that he might walk alone to the end of the Champs-Elysees, which

is what he did, if you remember, on Sunday evening. He walked, isolated,

towards the people with the European anthem behind him. And it was very

touching and special. It's something he will be remembered for in years

to come, this man, a loan, walking towards the people of France.

Apparently, that is what he wants to do again. Symbolism is very

important. As I said, there is some kind of possibility for the two men

to make what they want. Emmanuel Macron is any man, he wants make it

special and so, it is not just another politician that you have in

this grand and splendid palace, who by the way, most presidents don't

like because it's not nice to live in. Even though I'm going to the

same palace, I will be different. That is apparently what he wants to

do and how he wants to do it, by working alone. Thank you so much for

the moment, very good to talk to you. That spring back in Hugh

Schofield, our Paris correspondent. You've watched lots of these power

transfers down big year in France. Marie were saying we don't have

kings any more, but you wouldn't guess that from the splendour around

the Elysee Palace today. Talking -- talk as the what happens and how

important it is the France. But they say the French have a monopoly

course freak in them. -- monarchical streak in them and

they haven't lost the taste for monarchy, it's deep in the genes of

the country. They seem to take the big idea of a president -- seemed to

take to the idea of a president who is above politics. By contrast with

Britain, for example, this is all new. The French republic is only

about 70 years old. All these rituals that have been

-- invented in recent times, it looks ancient and pompous and full

of ceremony, but actually a lot of it was invented by Charles de Gaulle

and his successor. I have not been that many presidential handover of

power in the fifth Republic. That said, there is at the Elysee, the

trappings of ceremony. It pleases, I think, the French, to see it all

rolled out again. Certainly as a nation, the French now have -- know

how to do it in the same way the British know-how to do it. Both our

nations with history, tradition and, uniforms and grandfather. --

fanfare. one of his first priorities as

president is to try and get a decent showing of MPs in the parliament?

How is he going to do that? He has En Marche but it's a tall order

isn't it? It is pretty much been born from nothing. But there are

hopeful signs. It is not ludicrous to predict that he'll get a majority

in the house -- the lower chamber. It is by no means a given, and he

will fight hard to get it with his new party, the En Marche, but there

is something here which he has rightly identified as a logic of the

institutions. There is a national feeling that, if you I elected

president, the least you can do afterwards is to give him a majority

in parliament so he can do what he set out to do. The constitution is

very flexible in France, it's set in stone by Charles de Gaulle in 1958.

It makes the president an important figure but it is based on his ruling

the majority of Parliament. If he doesn't have that majority, then

power does shift. It shifts to the Prime Minister. This is what

Emmanuel Macron wants to avoid, he wants a parameter and the government

loyal to him. But to have that, he needs a majority. The next few weeks

will be important because the landscape has shifted after the

selection completely. We are in unknown territory, the pollsters

don't know how to predict this election because Sting constituency

by a constituency. We have the En Marche movement with the wind in its

sales, younger candidates from civil society which come fresh faced with

optimism, but you have the other parties too. On the right, Le

Republica, which has not fallen apart. It feels that the legislative

or the chance to come back and make a great showing, to signify the

Emmanuel Macron that the centre-right is where the balance of

power lies. So to win the majority, and impose on him a promised and

government which will have to work. If that happens, we will have to

have the cohabitation with Macron as president and really having to take

a step back from the polity making -- policy-making, which will reside

mostly with the government on Prime Minister with the backing of

Parliament. That is what Emmanuel Macron wants to avoid. So it will be

very important and is interesting. All you can say in Emmanuel Macron's

favour is that there is a logic to his election, and many people will

not have voted for him in the presidential election. I will be

saying, we need to give him a chance. He seems to be an honest

person with ideas. If we hamstring him from the start, his whole

presidency will be a failure of course. Let us give him the powers

he needs to do what he has to do. And he will do what he has to do as

an outsider, is the way he's been portrayed. This has been cold by

some as a political revolution in France. In another way, he is an

archetypal insider. You are tiny in terms of his education, he is part

of the French elite. -- you told me in terms of his education, he is

part of the elite. But he is portraying himself as an outsider.

This is what is held against him by both be right and the far left. The

handover of power, they say, is a sham. Because Francois Hollande,

according to this theory, has done something of political genius. The

critics say that his presidency was a failure when it comes to policy

and its effect on the country but politically, boxer-macro remains a

mastermind. What he has done is cleverly -- Francois Hollande

remains a mastermind. He has bought someone into power who has carried

on his legacy. This is someone who has been with Francois Hollande from

the start. Macron was with Francois Hollande on the day have in direct

-- on the day of his inauguration. He was his protege. This is held

against him and Francois Hollande in particular by both the far left and

the far right. It is his weak point, carrying on the legacy that broadly

what he is going to do is carry out more effectively what Francois

Hollande tried to carry out. That is a soft liberalisation of economic

policy and a soft warming up with Germany. The idea is that Francois

Hollande was hamstrung with that because he made promises to the left

and was not a man who had clear ideas. But that was the drift of his

policy. Macron now, who says we need to open up and liberalise and reform

Europe, to staff, that is simply a -- we need to do stuff, that is

simply doing it without the embarrassment of boxer-macro's

policy. Continuity I think is part of this, but France does not need

anything radical, it needs change in the direction that it has set out

already. A more open labour market, close the relationships with

Germany, the reforms which Emmanuel Macron has espoused. It is

continuity, but the alternative was something radical indeed. That was a

move towards the politics of emotion, and populism. That is what

the country has rejected. Rejected it for now. To what extent do you

think populism and the far right and Marine Le Pen will be back next

time? Undoubtedly, they will not go away unless the country can lift

itself up by its bootstraps and in five years' time, feel better place.

If it does feel a better place five years from there is no reason to

think that Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon of the far left,

will be then really poised to take part. But that is a big if. But it

is possible that there are historical forces at work here that

are beyond the possibility of any president to turn around. Maybe what

is happening in Europe and France is a decline in relationship with the

rest of the world, a sense of no longer being the top dogs at the top

table, that is something which will have to get used to. It will be a

long process of adjustment of other parts of the world like China and

India become more important and richer. It may be a psychological

adjustment of the country has to go to. Which will take a long period of

time, and it may be in five years' time the country still feels very

badly off and unhappy and miserable and nostalgic, in which case the

solutions offered by the protectionist, the Nationalists, or

on the left the people who want to completely overhaul the capitalist

system, those messages may still have great appeal. They are owed an

enormous result ability under shoulders of Emmanuel Macron to give

signals over the next five years. No one expects things to sell around

completely, but at least the start of the process of rebuilding. -- no

one expects things to turn around completely. On the European level,

this will play out. If Macron gets his way, we will see a big

relaunching of the European project. Again, some say we have been there

and done that. Do we really want to rest all our hopes on a resurgence

of the European project? Is his argument will be, yes, we have

reached a point where we have got rid of Britain which was the great,

sort of, ball and chain about immigration, now is the chance for

you really to move down the road to integration -- for Europe to really

move down the road to integration, setting up European Parliament, is

there a system of distributing wealth. If that can happen in

partnership with France's reef forming, maybe Europe will start

being able to take the rightful place on the world stage to which he

certainly think is it. Thanks for joining us. Hugh Schofield with his

analysis of where we are on a historic day this France as it

watches the transfer of power from Francois Hollande too, as you were

saying, the young Emmanuel Macron. Close by to the Elysee Palace is our

correspondent, and we were seeing people on the street

we were speaking to people and the crowd of been huge, whether it is a

socialist or another party. Perhaps Emmanuel Macron has not attracted

the same amount of actual supporters turning up to the Elysee Palace

because he is so new. But they are saying around here, this is a far

smaller crowds may have seen at the Elysee Palace for past inauguration.

You were talking about the difficulties and challenges that

Emmanuel Macron faces and has been facing since the moment he was

elected one week ago. All the newspapers this morning, pretty much

all of them, are talking about what he has to do now. The honeymoon

period was so incredibly short before, immediately, he started

thinking towards the 11th of June, that is one the lower house of

parliament elections take place. He needs a majority of MPs in that

lower house of parliament. At the moment En Marche, his party, his

movement, has absolutely nobody in the Parliament. They have to get a

working majority of people to support him in order for Emmanuel

Macron to carry out the reforms he wants in order to pass laws. That is

talk about this some more. This week, we have had the revelation of

people running for the seats, not all of them have been announced.

They are a diverse bunch, exactly half female, and come from all walks

of life? The presidential office will be in enormous for Macron. He

realises that. The difficulty for him will be that he has at the

moment, no constituency behind him and his En Marche is fairly new. He

has this changed it to Republic En Marche. At the moment, he doesn't

have a shoo-in. -- a shoo-in Prime Minister to come into the lower

house. And he has no obvious political allies either. He will

have to find some too, effectively, enforce his ambitious political

programme. As you said, at the moment, people have emigrated so

far, half of them have no political experience at all -- people have

been recruited so far. The average age is 46 which is younger than the

people who occupy the seats at the moment. People from all walks of

life including a former bull-fighter and a former Nobel were winning

mathematician. It is 50-50 in terms of male and female distribution. But

this strikes me less about ability than representational correctness.

He will have to find political friends and allies pretty quickly.

We see inside the Elysee, everybody in anticipation. That meeting

between outgoing and incoming president seems to be going on for a

while. They are having essentially an informal conversation before

Emmanuel Macron sees Francois Hollande out of the Elysee Palace

the good. But as an outgoing president, I'm sure Francois

Hollande will be welcomed but they will follow the actual inauguration

after that. We saw Emmanuel Macron's rive Bridget alive -- wife Bridget

alive before her husband. Why did it come in that order?

-- review that guard by the incumbent president and his wife by

the steps of the Elysee Palace. Of course, president Emmanuel Macron is

a bachelor and doesn't have an official first Lady. The surgery and

-- to avoid embarrassment, she arrived before him. We have talked

about his forthcoming parliamentary legislative election, there is

obviously the fact that the French president is a powerful role in

itself. But Parliament is essential still for doing things he wants to

do. Absolutely. The irony about Emmanuel Macron is that what it

essentially allowed him to rise so quickly, is also to do with his

ability. We discussed how lucky he got with this election. But it has

to do with the details. He is hands on with the policies he lamented. --

with the policies he invented. He will be having to find ministers and

crucially, a permanently to reinforce his policies. He will be

less hands-on ironically, and he will have to find people to

implement this programme. Monday will be the day that announcement

all be to be premised. A lot of names are being bandied about. That

will be crucial to set the tone for his presidency, whether he chooses

someone from the Socialist Party or the more right-wing candidate, it

will be decisive in the course of action in his administration. So

far, there have been 24 socialists who have been selected to represent

his Republic En Marche movement to face this Parliament elections.

There will be members from the conservative Republican parties who

want to leave what is a blighted party now in the wake of their

their support of a candidate who is going under criminal investigation.

They will want immediate power and will be tempted to join the En

Marche movement. These allegations against Francois Fillon, he would

have been a favourite for centre-right and his expenses and

salaries are now under the microscope and that effectively led

to the fact that he fell out of the race and did not make it through to

the second round. I think it is fair to say when the

scandal broke, the state job scandal, he would've been a shoo-in,

for Fillon. He had a formidable vehicle behind him help, he took

over as Sarkozy as head of the party and he was hugely popular. Everybody

was absolutely convinced that he was going to be the next president and

all of a sudden, this scandal broke out which has to do with the

effectively self enrichment and I think that is what made an awful lot

of difference in the minds of French people who, let's be honest, I used

to be corruption of the political class of France, either on the left

or on the right, but the difference was, unlike others who also got

criminal charges against them for all sorts of corruption with the

party, it had to do with enriching the party and not themselves and I

think that is the main difference that has stuck with the French

people. That was the twist of fate that helped Emmanuel Macron on the

right. What happened with regard to the socialist? They had a primary

which ended up in a candidate being chosen who were so far to the left

that he did not represent the centre, the right of the party and

utter innocence was another sense of luck for Emmanuel Macron? To a

certain extent, it could be argued that he is responsible for the

fragmentation of the left. He came in as a money man to Hollande's

government and he started implementing very right-wing, some

people would say, liberalising economic policies which divided the

left and absolutely angered an awful lot of traditional socialist. It

effectively lead to the explosion of the left into three separate

parties. The hard life, Jean-Luc Melenchon, the official candidate

for the socialist was another, the social Democrat, Emmanuel Macron who

won the race in the end. We are just waiting. As many of the people in

the Elysee Palace are for former, or the outgoing president Francois

Hollande to emerge. From that meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the

incoming president, the handover of power, the conversation between the

two men. They know each other so well. Handing over the nuclear codes

as well. This very private meeting is critical. It is absolutely

crucial to this whole process, isn't it? Absolutely. It is the effective

handover of power that is happening at the moment. In a short period of

time, we will see President Hollande out of the Elysee Palace, honoured

by the Republican guard salute, of course he will be welcomed at any

time by the Macrons in the Elysee Palace as well and will follow the

actual inauguration ceremony which is very solemn and will happen in

the ballroom at the Elysee Palace, as has been the case under the fifth

public. It has not been the case under the third and fourth republics

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

just outside the Elysee Palace looking at the crowds that opposite,

waiting for Francois Hollande, the outgoing president to emerge, once

he has got into a car, we saw parked, at the end of the 60 metres

of red-carpet, he will drive away and that is the end of his term in

office. Under blue skies now, the rain has stopped, thankfully, here

in Paris. The moment, back to you, Ben, in the studio. Thank you very

much indeed. Those talks between the outgoing President Hollande and his

protege, the new president 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, those

talks seem to be going on a little bit longer than we had expected. But

they are, as we know, two men who know each other very well and they

have got plenty to talk about, the future of France and the transfer of

those nuclear codes. Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield, that

is, innocence, some of the most important business of the day. We

have all this ceremonial but as the transfer of the nuclear codes that

is crucial there. I've been reading up on the nuclear codes, is it

really be nuclear codes, what does it mean? Do they have to memorise

it? In fact what it is we use the shorthand in nuclear codes, what it

is it is a code, it is a code that identifies him as the president. In

other words, when there is a crisis and the Armed Forces chiefs are, on

the stand-by, in order to identify himself to them to say look, I am

giving the order to launch the nuclear missiles, he needs to have

some kind of identifier and that is what is handed over to him at this

meeting. Presumably in must change as well. More than that, I do not

know. It is not the kind of code that launches a nuclear missile, it

is the identifier for the president. And the anecdote that goes with it

that in 1981 when the president was handing over to the next, he had

this meeting which is going on now between Macron. Hollande, and gave

him the information and it was on a piece of paper and he put it in the

pocket of his suit that later in the day, he changed his suit and Lucy 20

the dry cleaners! Sony pocket of deceit going to the dry cleaners was

the President's personal identifier which would allow him to lodge

nuclear war. Fortunately of course the suit was recuperated in time

when the problem was spotted and nothing ever leaked out. But that is

the story. It is a very good story. You have the image of Mr Macron

scribbling down numbers on a scrap of paper. I cannot imagine it as

basic as that today. Look, the sky over Paris has lifted. It is a

beautiful blue sky now because it was raining rather heavily one were

talking to a colleague earlier. Perhaps that is a symbol of a bright

new dawn for France as it enters its new presidency. And the car that I

will take away the outgoing president Hollande. What are your

thoughts on this day? A very political significant day for

France. Well, on a more trivial meteorological question, everyone

remembers this day five years ago when Hollande had just been

inaugurated and made his way up Champs-Elysee and it started

bucketing with rain and he was sodden and his suits started taking

on this air of sheen on it. Well, the weather is certainly looking

better today. There is finally the moment we have been waiting for. The

new president and the old president side-by-side, after that meeting

that we have just been talking about, where they work, amongst

other things, discussing the nuclear codes. And Emmanuel Macron, as Hugh

Schofield wishes telling us, being given the code that identified him

as the man who can trigger a nuclear response from France. And applause

as the two men walk along the red carpet that leads Francois Hollande

to the car that will take him away from the Elysee Palace for the last

time. And a handshake and a tap on the shoulder for the new president,

Emmanuel Macron. From the man, Francois Hollande who brought him

into his government as Economy Minister and has watched him rise to

power. Francois Hollande applauded by his protege as he steps into the

back of that modest car, a ways to his successor. A -- his successor.

Leading with a mixed legacy. Seen as by an author as a failure, his

popularity rating slumped. A wave in the sunshine. As he leaves. Applause

as he is driven out through the gates for the last time. The crowds

outside the Elysee that are an Emmanuel Macron now walks back alone

along the red carpet to the Elysee for the formal inauguration ceremony

as Francois Hollande is driven away. Mr Macron with his wife Brigitte.

The women he met when he was her drama student at school, just a

teenager and he wrote the play, apparently, that she wished hugely

impressed by and all of France has been impressed by his talent and he

has risen with meteoric speed as these races up those stairs with

great energy, bounding up the stairs, just showing what a young

president he is. Only 39 years of age. But is it going to be a

revolution in France or is it is going to be more of the same? That

is what Hugh Schofield was discussing whether because, of

course, he has been Francois Hollande's protege and many of his

critics, Mr Macron, will say, he is just part of the old Hollande regime

who is going to continue the same policies. So, he's Goforth, Paris

correspondent, just talk is what really happens now. How does this

inauguration actually take place? In these sort of constitutional

ceremonial, there is no actual, I do not think, moment of handing on of

power. There is no anointing of the king like there would be in the

cathedral in the old days, the moment of the anointing he becomes

king. I think it is just happening now as we speak. At some point in

this hour, the hour that has been on the hour that has yet to come, he

becomes president. You could see it as the moment when Francois Hollande

tries away all the moment when the president of the cost YouTube

Council reads out the results of the elections which he is going to do

now. Maybe that is the moment when it is recorded publicly that he was

elected and is now president. It is not known and it is not really

matter. What is certainly knowing that when he emerges, I think out of

the back door, add to the garden of the Elysee onto the Champs-Elysee,

he is the president and the country looks and realises that there is a

new leader. A bit like in Britain, in the French way, there is a

mystery surrounding all of theirs which is part of the sacramental is

of high office in France. No one can put their finger on it. It is just

what happens. But as we speak, he is becoming president. He will make

that speech in a second and then he will be anointed and inducted, shall

we say, as Grand Master of the Legion of honour and that is a

symbolic moment as well, going back to Napoleon because the Grand Master

of the Legion of honour is the president. He will make the speech,

go up the Champs-Elysee and then it will be to business. The ceremony

will be forgotten. There is another moment this afternoon where he goes

to meet the Mayor of Paris. But as part of tradition. It will be very

quickly down to business for Emmanuel Macron because there is an

awful lot to do. And he was to be seen as someone who gets down to

business very quickly. I'm good to be very interested to see whether he

is one of those presidents who acts in the first few months knowing that

will make him an unpopular but to get the unpopularity over with first

or whether he is someone, a bit like Hollande, who dithers and nothing

gets done much. I think he's going to be more like someone who decides

to take the heat early on with some fairly dramatic early decision. And

you talk about his energy. When we saw him running up the stairs there,

he seemed to be wanting to show that he is a very young and vigorous

president. And different in a way to predecessors and from Hollande.

Completely. He knows he represents this generational change. He knows

that for many young people, particularly of the kind of aspiring

middle classes, people who do not want to give up on optimism, people

you want to feel that France has got a place in the New World, he

represents them, they are a generation who feel they have been

badly done by by the failure of France to reform. They are people

that feel like the older generation of people, the people who emerge

from the 1968 May cultural revolution that followed that, they

have been done out of their birthright, that the people in the

old generation have held onto their jobs, they have got the good

positions and the Scot on them and they have said, if you want to come

get jobs, you have your own rebellion. There is this resentment,

I think among middle-class and younger people who still the place

should be shaken up so that their chance in the sun should come. He

represents them and was too generally open up the French

economy, along liberal lines so that is more easy the younger people to

get access to jobs and that the youthful energy, as he jumped up

those stairs, is a signal that he was to give up to this country. We

are seeing Brigitte, his wife, 64 years old, many people have talked a

lot and been rather fascinated by this relationship, this great story,

the romance of the schoolboy meeting his drama teacher and then marrying

her. How important? She's going to be a very different first lady in

the Elysee. She may well get a proper status. One of Emmanuel

Macron's plans is devoted to the rule book, whatever that is, whether

it is a law or decree, something that says that France can have a

first Lady. There is nothing in the rule book, the Constitution about

their wife or spouse, partner of the president. I think he wants to

officially start which is not uncontroversial because many people

in France will say that is not part of our republican traditions, family

members have no role in the running of our state, of our country, his

view would be, well, we have lived in a very hypocritical situation

where it has always been women, the women have had different kind of

roles and it has caused embarrassment and it has cause

awkwardness, let's just have something proper. I think it is also

find sign of his devotion to the woman. They are very, very close. He

depends on her emotionally, we saw in documentaries that brokers are

the one last Sunday how she played a crucial role in the campaign, who

was often there in the sidelines, chastising him, do not eat

chocolate, that sort of way. They are very close. She has an input,

she is critical of him, she minds him, she has ideas. He regards as

someone very, very important in his life and she is not ashamed to make

that public. He is not ashamed to make public. He would rather make it

public. She will have a very prominent part to play. We are just

waiting there in the ballroom of the Elysee for the reading out of the

election results. As you were saying, that is an important part of

the ceremony, isn't it? The reading out of the official declaration of

the election results. Odyssey we all know them and we have known for

quite a long time. I hope and I seem to remember that he only reads out

round to results otherwise it would take a rather long time. He was the

former Socialist Prime Minister, the one who drew up the European

constitution which came to grief and has now been elevated in his elder

years to president of the Constitutional Council which is

extremely important body in France, in mind the constitution, it

oversees the questions of whether laws are in conformity with the

constitution. But also provides over at occasions like this, in a sense

that he is the voice of the constitution. I hear music. Yes,

here is the new president of France, Emmanuel Macron.

The president of the Republic, last Sunday, the 7th of May, 2017,

following an unusual electric campaign in many ways, you receive

20,000,740 3000, 128 votes in the second round of the presidential

election. An absolute majority of votes. Implementing articles six and

seven of our Constitution, the cost issue -- Constitutional Council or

the Kurds you elected president of the republic. The AIDS president

elected with universal suffrage of the Republic. This Sunday 14th of

May in the specific moment you are entering your mandate. We will give

you your mess and so congratulations, Mr President of the

Republic. In a phrase that takes full meaning, in order to be the man

of 1's country, you have to be the man of your time. Man of our time

and out of the U R. By your choice, your training, your pass and even

your society position and by sovereign choice of the people, you

are the man of our country. Responsible for representing it

everywhere in the metropolis and overseas, in Europe and in the

world. The president of the French republic, head of State, head of the

Army 's, Armed Forces, president of our republic which is indivisible,

secular, democratic and social, responsible for representing it and

making it progress. In body and the values and the language and putting

it together. And that is to say in this time, in this world, this new

World where there great perspectives coming up against major risks for

planet, the main importance than the difficulty of your mission leads the

government which is self controlled by Parliament, in order to appease

anger, you you repair injury, to eliminate doubt, to show the path

and to embody hope. That is why, Mr President, your success will be the

success of France and that is why we offer you for your mandate to keep

the people close to you and yourself, are very warm wishes of

success. TRANSLATION: Mr President of the

Republic, we recognise you as being a great master of the National order

of the Legion of honour. So your manual Macron verb being

presented with the grand Cross of the Legion of honour which all

presidents are given. -- Emmanuel Macron. He will not wear it, he is

presented with it as the new president. And there, just signing

the order of the Legion of honour. And you heard the saying to him to

be the man of our country, you has to be the man of our times. And that

is what he said, Emmanuel Macron is. TRANSLATION: Presidential as the

cost issue Council, ladies and gentlemen, chairs, ladies and

gentlemen, the French have chosen, as you reminded us, in the spirit of

Congress and the whole world has looked at our presidential election,

everywhere people were wondering whether the French would decide in

turn to go back to the past, it solutions, whether they would break

with the way the world is going, yield to democratic defiance. The

feeling of division turning the buck to the lights. Or, on the other

hand, with the embrace the future, give themselves collectively new

momentum, reaffirming the values that have made of it are great

people? On the 7th of May, the French chose and let us thank them

here. The responsibility that they gave me is an honour and I measured

its seriousness the world and Europe, more than ever, need France.

They need a strong France, sure of its own destiny. They need a France

which raises hide the voice of liberty and solidarity, they need a

France which knows how to invade the future. The world needs what the

French people, men and women, have always taught it, the daring of

freedom, the requirements of the quality and a will for Fred Fred --

fraternity. Frantz has belted itself and its culture, its social model,

it has doubts in what it has made. -- France has belted itself. There

will be to demand in my mandate. The first will be to give to be French

people is confident of itself which, for too long, has been weakened. And

I can reassure you, I have not for a moment thought things would stay as

they worked in the 7th of May in the evening, it would be slow work and

demanding but indispensable. It will be my role to convince the French

people that our country wishing to be in difficulty with the sometimes

contrary currents of the world, that they will use all its resources to

be among the first of nations. I will convince our citizens that the

power of France is not declining, that we are on the edge of the great

Renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which make and

will make the great powers of the 21st century. To do that, I will

yield in nothing on the commitments made with respect to the French

people. Everything which gives vigour to the France and prosperity

will be implemented, work will be made free, companies will be

supported, initiatives will be encouraged, culture and education,

which gives rise to emancipation, creation, innovation, these will be

at the heart of my actions. The French people, men and women who

feel forgotten by this great movement in the world, they will

have to see themselves better protected. Everything which forges

our national solidarity will be reformulated, reinvented and

equality are respectively incidence of life will be strengthened.

Everything which makes France a country sure where it is possible to

live without fear will be amplified, secularism, Republican centralism

will be defended. The forces of law and order, our armies strengthened.

The Europe that we need will be remoulded, relaunch because it

protects us in the world to create something new is, our institutions,

criticised by some, have two, in the eyes of the French people, get back

the effectiveness which gives their longevity. I will do everything in

my power for it to operate according to the spread of which it was

created. And so that, I will ensure that our country has new democratic

vitality and citizens will be listened to. They will see in that

challenge, I will need all of you, there is policy of all the elites,

political, economic, social, religious, all the bodies of the

French nation, they will be called upon. We can no longer take refuge

behind usages or habits which are sometimes pass their time. We have

to get back to the deep meeting, the dignity of what today brings us

together. To act in a just way, in an effective way for people. France

is only strong if it prospers, France is only a model for the world

if it is an example. Exemplary and that is my second requirement

because we will have given back to the French for the future and ready

to what they are, the world will pay attention to what transfers because

we will be unable to, together, go beyond our fears and anxieties, we

will, together, give the example of the people which knows how to affirm

its values, its principles, which are those of democracy and the

Republic. The efforts of my predecessors have

been remarkable, on those lines, I am thinking of Charles de Gaulle,

who worked to put France back in its position among the nations of the

world. And thinking of Pompidou who made our country and industrial

power, allowing the country to modernise, Jacques Chirac, who gave

us the position of a nation which can say, now, to the pretensions and

claims of those who want more. And Nicolas Sarkozy, who could deal with

the financial crisis that struck the world so harshly. And Francois

Hollande, a precursor, with the agreement in Paris on climate, and

dealing with a world hit in Paris by terrorism. And the mistake in these

last decades Boston has seen a deleterious -- often has seen a

deleterious. Internal climate which has seen France not in favour,

sometimes weakened by a national situation full of uncertainty, and

sometimes worry. Ladies and gentleman, now, France has to do now

rise to the moment. The divisions in our society have to be overcome.

Whether economic, social, political maul. -- political or moral law.

Because the world expects us to be strong and clairvoyant. We will

assume all our responsibilities it's time it is necessary to answer the

great crises of the time. Whether the migration crisis or the climate

challenge, or is slippage to authoritarianism or the excesses of

world capitalism, or of course terrorism. Nothing, now, can affect

some people leaving the others unhurt. We all neighbours. France

will always seek to be on the side of liberty, human rights, but always

in order to build peace in time, over time. We have a major role to

correct the excesses of the way the world is going and seek to defend

freedom. That is our vocation. To do that, we need a more effective,

Democratic Europe, more political, because as is the instrument of our

power and sovereignty. I will work along those lines. Geography has

significantly become smaller overtime has accelerated. We are

going through a period of France the coming decades. We will not fight

only for this generation but the future generations. It is up to us,

all of us, that here and now, we have to decide on the world in which

future generations will live. That, maybe, is our greatest before

usability. We have to build the world -- our greatest

responsibility. We have to build the world are young people deserve. By

now the French people at this time are expecting a lot of me and they

are right. The mandate that they have given me gives me to deal with

absolute requirements and I am fully aware of that. Nothing will be

yielded for facility or compromise. Nothing will weaken my

determination. Nothing will make me renounce, give up defending at any

time or anywhere, the higher interests of France. I will at the

same time, seek constantly to reconcile and to bring together all

French people. The trust that the French people have given me fills me

with great energy. An intimate certainty, that together, we can

write one of the most beautiful pages of our history in my actions.

In those moments where everything can go awry, the French people have

always delivered for the energy and discernment, the spirit of Concord,

to deal with deep change. And that is a situation now. That is for this

mission that, humbly, I will serve our people. I know that I can count

on all our citizens to carry out the considerable and exhausting task

which is ahead of us. And as far as I'm concerned, as of the seedling, I

will start work. Long live the Republic, long live France. STUDIO:

Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France applauded for that speak

for -- speech. His wife is there. A remarkable speech saying France has

doubted itself for decades, and he says his mission mission is to give

them to people confidence in themselves. He said the power of

France is not declining, we are on the edge of a great Renaissance. He

was saying in this election, everyone had been wondering if

France would go back to the past, all up to the future. He said France

had chosen the future. He said the world and Europe now, more than

ever, needs strong France, short of its own destiny, a France that knows

how to invent the future, he said. Sterling words, then, from the new

president of the fifth Republic. -- sterling words. Just 39 years old.

Greeted their by politicians and officials as the new president of

France. Our Paris correspondent was listening to that. Some striking

words there from the new president? I was struck by the predominance of

the prefix 're'. Relaunch, rejuvenated. He was going to take on

the old and make it new. That is the only have ambition. It represents

use, wrap Champs-Elysees energy, bigger Dick Tuimavave use, energy,

He has a set of policies and systems which are good but need to be about

and given the energy and purpose. That is the purpose he intends to

give it. It was a powerful speech, as you are saying, looking forward

and giving back. He felt confident that this is the word you picked up

and I did too, a relevant answer France is around the corner. If only

he and the country can find the energy and let go on to the economy

and society, and culture, he talked about the need to open up Labour and

other companies. And culture, innovation, are part of his idea. It

is a hopeful message and comparisons are made to Barack Obama when he

came to power eight years ago or so. Some ideas that hope is there and he

represented. And we will have to see. He looks the part the part.

Will he actually be able to harness this latent force in the country

which he says is always there? We have to see. He remarked at the end

there that France always, when it comes to change, he has found that

determination and Concord. That is one interpretation, another is that

France has been unable to cope with change. It hasn't learned to adapt

and wait till the crisis arrives and then has a momentous and often

violent change. That is what people fear could still be to come if he

doesn't, at this crucial juncture, harness the benevolent forces of

positive change which he claims he can see and knows how to put to

work. He should prefer not just his predecessor Francois Hollande but

previous presidents, talking about their achievements as leaders.

Putting himself as leader in brackets, saying I am the new leader

and will achieve this. There are people that want to be people of the

fifth Republic and I attached to that institution. And he is two, he

is not someone that wants to tear it down or turn it into a much more

parliamentary democracy. He wants the president to be presidential,

and as he said, in counterpoint to Francois Hollande, he does not want

to be a normal president, rowers boxer-macro said he wants to be

normal. He wants the president to have wrote this about him. He will

not be giving regular interviews and will surround himself with a certain

mystique of power. He thinks that is more effective. He'll make decisions

that are his. This is something to watch ahead in the months ahead. It

is such a personal mission that he has got going. And he is a man of

such personal talent and brilliance, if you like, but there have been

questions about whether he may risk being detached in his ivory tower

surrounded by advisers giving orders because he has such self-confidence.

And maybe he takes too much on himself and becomes a bit too

detached. That is something to watch out for. But his recital was an

attempt to put himself in that tradition and, to his predecessors,

some of whom are people who was opposed to politically like Jacques

Chirac, he was gracious, Chirac for Iraq, Sarkozy for tackling the

banking crisis of 2008 and 2009 and foxtrot macro, even though he has

differences on economic policy, he said his actions on terrorism and

climate change were crucial. Thank you. I think that might have been Mr

Macron on the phone saying he won't be in an ivory tower for the next

few years. I'm sure you will chart his presidency with your usual

style. Let's go to a friend journalist with and talking to

throughout the morning. Marie, in a way, that speech was a

-- in a way that was saying French people should have confidence in

that self -- in themselves. How important was that? It's important

to him to show he understands what the French were feeling and

thinking. In this election and beyond that. He says, I know what

you feel and what you think is important. Because as he is not a

politician, he has an edge that all of the other candidates did not

have. Because he has been into the civil society although he was a

banker and quite wealthy. He talks to the French people on the

standpoint that is very different from all the other presidents. What

French people await from him is a new era, basically. The way he

spoke, he said two things. One was I understand what you feel and think.

I understand that you are pessimistic and I know that

criticism is not what France is all about. So I will try to use all the

strength that we having fun society to talk about the religious

identity, a secular identity. I will try and convey all the forces of

France at the moment and show you that France can be a bit more than

what you think it is. He says, we are on the edge of a great

runners-up. The power font is not -- other great runners-up. The power of

France is not declining, it is boosting the French people. That is

exactly what the French people want from him. A new man with new ideas,

who feels that he has the energy, he is young, he has the energy of

taking France out of its slumber, in a way. Obviously he did very well in

the election, 65%, 20 million votes as we heard, read out there. To what

extent, the people who didn't vote for him, is he regarded with

cynicism and scepticism and disliked by those who didn't vote for him and

voted for someone like Marine Le Pen? It's a mix of cynicism and

disliked. He's seen the Front National and the far left party,

describing him as two things. One, as a banker and as in the UK,

bankers don't have good French press. It's a bit and relevant --

irrelevant but it's sticking to him. And the other is baby Francois

Hollande, the sun of boxer-macro who was leaving.

He is seen as not new and if he is newcomer he is a banker and that is

not good. So he is not being welcomed by everyone. The fact that

he wants to change labour laws, and we know that French people are very

attached to their social protection, very strong social protection. The

fact that he wants to change it in order to make France more open to

the world and over the companies who would like to settle in France, and

all because it is so, take -- complicated to fire someone. He

wants to change that. Although some people might see the positive angle,

the difficulty they have to go through doesn't seem worth it.

Because there is a prominent anti-globalisation movement during

this election. The far right and the far left were basically talking --

treading the same path in terms of anti-globalisation. Macron wants to

open France to the world, have many companies leaving London because of

Brexit, moving to Paris instead. He wants to attract people from London

to Paris. That is maybe not well liked in France, big companies

aren't well liked by many people. When Francois Hollande arrives, he

said my enemy is financed, I don't like wealthy people. Macron is the

contrary. He said not to be ashamed of working and making money, that is

something that is normal, why shouldn't we aspire to better

ourselves? And bettering ourselves means having good salaries. Why is

it a problem in France to feel that you can achieve something and have a

reward for that? So it is interesting to see how we had, for

the last five years, a president who is very much from the socialist and

one who was cold a baby Francois Hollande, who is much more in the

centre, perhaps on the right-hand side of the political spectrum. It's

fascinating watching him now, gladhanding, shaking hands with

these politicians and well-wishers, almost all of them older than him.

He is maybe not baby Francois Hollande but 39 years of age, he is

strikingly young to be a president? I suppose before might make

comparisons with JFK or Obama, the use coming into presidency. What is

that like for France's image around the world? It is significant. 39,

not even 40. That would at least have been some symbolic threshold.

You will be 40 in the summer. That is important I think. One Tour de

France people, they said we have a young president Ahmad is important.

-- when I talked to French people. The people that tried to make a

living in France are constructing and building. That is important, he

is young, he has the demeanour of someone who is 39. That is important

money have 60 or 70 and have demeanour. -- imported when you are

60 or 70. He is from the generation that is open to the world. He is

European, open-minded, as a 39-year-old can be. That is quite

important. As you say, you can see him shaking hands and you can also

see a few people with their mobile phones taking pictures. I haven't

seen anyone try to take herself yet. -- try to take a selfie yet. I don't

think that happened with Francois Hollande. But the complexion of this

energy, with all the politicians, many decided not to stand for real

action for this legislative election. They said they want to

leave a place for the new generation. Is it a way to go down

with style, thinking I won't be elected so I might as well give up

and say it's for the good of the new generation? Maybe. But that some

feel wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Emmanuel Macron. If it

wasn't the old elephants, old dogs, saying I won't stand for election

because I think that there is a new blood needed in France. It's not

just the president to his young, and who started a movement towards the

youngification, I'm not sure if that is an English word. He has chosen

younger candidates, that is quite normal. He has forced the other

parties to do exactly the same. There is already a few lines moving

in the French republic. We can see his wife, Brigitte Trogneux, who is

the subject of fascination because she is older than him, his drama

teacher at school which is where he met her. She is wearing a blue

designer suit. How important is she to him as he starts off as? He is

attached to his wife, he wanted to show that and that he valued her

input, and her reflection. That is completely new. Think about the

wives of the former president such as Bernadette Chirac, Jacques Chirac

cold her mummy. That doesn't sound like a very healthy relationship,

and away. And she was by his side, but you understood that she was the

man who wanted them enter the Elysee Palace. She wanted to be a

politician herself but because of her man, she couldn't go too far

after he left office in the started again to build a local career. But

she was presented to do anything because of the man who she was with.

There is a difference between Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte

Trogneux. He is the young one, she already had a career in the

Professor -- as -- a career as a professor. She has

the edge on him, many people thinks she was the one that pushed him that

-- to be a candidate. He said -- she said, think about how religion five

years she is older, -- how we look in five years' time, she is older,

now is the time for Emmanuel Macron to win because in five years' time I

will be too old for that. That is one way to look at it. The other is

that she has people saying she has created him.

That as a way of seeing things critically. I'm not sure if that is

a reality. I was an interesting documentary broadcast on Monday,

when one of the -- you can see bits and pieces of their relationship, at

the end of the debate against Marine Le Pen, he came out of the cooling

debate asking people around him, could you please find me some

chocolate? -- gruelling debate. She said no, don't eat junk food. And he

said, I have water them. She is grounding him, and that is the ways

he wants her to be perceived. Thank you so much Marie, a French

journalist who has been watching this inauguration and the new

president of France there, Emmanuel Macron, with invited guests there in

the Elysee Palace, and politicians kissing, shaking hands, gladhanding

and in his speech he said France is doubted himself and wants to give

the French people confidence in themselves and his is the power of

France is not declining. We are on the edge of a great Renaissance. So

France has a new president. He is 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron. You are

watching BBC News. So, big smiles as the pressing of the flesh and the

kissing of the cheeks continues there in the Elysee and there seem

to be hundreds of people there who wants just a couple of seconds with

the new president of the fifth Republic. Our correspondent has been

following it for us. She is close to the Elysee Palace. We are just

outside because we are among the motorcades that are waiting to take

the politicians and senior figures in French society away once this

meeting with Emmanuel Macron is over, he will go into a lunch with

family and, interestingly, it is very... It stand out how there is

Emmanuel Macron shaking the hands of many figures prominent in French

politics, senior inexperience to him but he at 39 years old is the man

charged in a system that is not used about. It is used to having battle

scars, the experience behind you to get into this position, you would

hear the same coming up time and time again. And then suddenly, out

of the blue, Emmanuel Macron is appointed economy minister under

Francois Hollande, and on May 14, 2017, he is president of France.

Still with me as the crowds are getting bigger outside the Elysee,

is a French commentator. One particular figure that boxer-macro

encounter delay, the president of the Constitutional Council, a very

senior politician. You were struck by what he said to him?

Traditionally, the president of the council is supposed to read out the

official without of the presidential election. And pop following that,

the presidency of the President-elect, officially begins.

But he did far more than matter. He went on an elaborate and

sophisticated speech praising Emmanuel Macron as a man of his

time. He is a young politician with the energy and your vitality perform

-- to reform France, he said. It has to be highlighted that he was the

youngest Prime Minister ever at age 37 in the 1980s. Say he is familiar.

He knows what it's like to be one of the juniors imposition of...

Absolutely. With one junior being in charge of the country. How

unexpected visit to see such familiar and experience bases in

French politics, being positive in their approach to Macron, rather

than being cynical about his lack of years and experience. That was

initially in the incumbent presidents, Emmanuel Macron is the

only one who hasn't served as an MP and that also stands out. It was

also held against them when he started campaigning, somebody could

never put himself up to any kind of election, not even a counsellor or a

Meier -- mayor. That was not an advantage to start with. But

gradually, he managed to turn this into an asset. As somebody who is

not an ideologue and doesn't want any political party, even he served

in Francois Larne's government, he was not a member of the Socialist

party. He turned this advantage into a formidable assets to challenge the

traditional left and right wing at the Terry system systems that have

dominated French politics of decades.

Thank you very much. Now, we believe that Emmanuel Macron I am being

told, is about to exit the Elysee Palace, as he walks with his wife,

Brigitte. So many greetings and messages of congratulations,

Francois Hollande, the outgoing president, apparently said, by way

of a good buy "bon Courage!" As he left the lazy palace for the last as

president. -- as he left the Ely is a palace. -- Elysee Palace.

After the inauguration, Emmanuel Macron briefly kissed her hand.

After that inauguration we have a 21 gun salute ringing out from the

military hospital on the other side of the River Seine. Then the new

president will be driven to the Arc de Triomphe where he will lay a

wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Emmanuel Macron, in his

speech, at the inauguration said that everyone was wondering whether

France would look back in this presidential election, all look to

the future. He said that France had chosen the future and not the past.

And that the world, and Europe, now more than ever needs a strong France

that is sure of its own destiny. And if France but he said no -- knows

how to invent the future. He spoke of the achievements of the previous

presidents of the fifth Republic. Charles de Gaulle, Francois

Hollande... He knows the challenges that he now faces because he wants

to modernise France, as he said, for decades now, France has doubted

itself. He said his job was to give the French people confidence in

themselves. He said the power of France is not declining. We are on

the edge of a great Renaissance, he said. A lot of fine words, of

course. As you tend to get at inauguration speeches but there is a

lot of hard work to do and he knows starting off with the National

Assembly parliamentary elections, he needs to get a majority there. To

help him effectively rule France. A tall order with his new movement, En

Marche, he only created a year or so ago, scrambling to get candidates

for the National Assembly elections. That is one of his jobs, he needs to

form a government. We are hearing that he will appoint a Prime

Minister probably tomorrow, and a new government on Tuesday. He is off