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       Emmanuel Macron Officially Sworn In As President Of France
   DIR By: ejidikeelo
       Date: May 15, 2017, 4:52 pm
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       39-year-old Emmanuel Macron
       became the youngest
       president in French history
       when he officially took office
       following a ceremony at the
       Elysee Palace in Paris on Sunday, May 14, 2017. Last week,
       Macron was elected
       France’s youngest head of
       state since Napoleon, after
       trouncing far-Right rival,
       Marine Le Pen, in a result that
       will certainly have far- reaching consequences for
       Britain and Europe. During the swearing in
       ceremony, Macron laid out the
       goals of his presidency in a
       speech that signalled his
       readiness to move forward
       with reforming the European Union. “We need a more efficient,
       more democratic, more
       political Europe, because it is
       the instrument of our
       strength and our
       sovereignty,” Macron said, adding that he wanted to
       help the French people regain
       their self-confidence. Macron’s presidency
       represents a break with
       traditional politics in France. He ran independent of the
       country’s established parties
       – centre-left Socialists and the
       centre-right Les Republicains –
       and instead founded his own
       centrist political movement, En Marche! (Forward!). France’s new
       leader takes
       over from Francois Hollande,
       whose record-low levels of
       support prevented him from
       seeking re-election. Macron is seeking to kick-start
       the French economy and
       overcome the sense of
       political malaise gripping the
       country. “It will be slow work,
       demanding but
       indispensable,” Macron said. Hollande hosted Macron for a
       final private conversation at
       the Elysee Palace before his
       departure. During Sunday’s palace
       ceremony, France’s armed
       forces greeted the new state
       chief with military honours
       and twenty-one cannon blasts.
       As president, Macron acts as the top commander of
       France’s armed forces and
       received the country’s
       nuclear codes. Macron’s immediate
       challenge will be to secure a
       majority in next month’s
       parliamentary election for En
       Marche! (Onwards!), his
       political movement that is barely a year old, in order to
       implement his program
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