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To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.
Francois Hollande
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Francois Hollande
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.
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Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
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Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
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