President Hollande

摘要

The huge crowd gathered in Place de la Bastille had to wait until late into the night before it actually glimpsed in the flesh the man it had come to celebrate. Francois Hollande gave his first victory speech in Tulle, his sleepy constituency in deeply rural France, in the early evening of May 6th, soon after it was announced that he had beaten Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.6% to 48.4%. It was the first defeat of an incumbent French president since Francois Mitterrand, the only previous Socialist president of France's Fifth Republic, beat Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1981.