Hollande Assumes the Presidency in France
Source: New York Times
PARIS — In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was inaugurated on Tuesday morning as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand left in 1995.
“We are a single France, undivided,” Mr. Hollande said after his investiture, promising a presidency of “dignity, simplicity and soberness.” He vowed that “the state will be impartial because it belongs to all of its citizens” and insisted that a united France could meet its difficult social and economic challenges, but warned that the country “cannot have sacrifices on one side and privilege on the other.”
He said he wanted “to open a new path for Europe,” based on economic growth as well as fiscal discipline.
Mr. Hollande, the seventh president of the Fifth Republic, was accompanied by his partner, Valérie Trierweiler; they will be the first unmarried couple to represent France.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/world/europe/francois-hollande-sworn-in-as-president-of-france.html
Can you even imagine an unmarried man and his girlfriend moving into the White House?
On edit: Here's the kicker... Her divorce from her previous husband, whom she had three kids with, is not even final.
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