PARIS –
The 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron is Sunday morning in Paris inaugurated as the 25th president of France. He was by Laurent Fabius, the former prime minister and now the president of the French constitutional council, declared the president.
The leader of the political movement La république en Marche! (The republic is on the way!) won last week with a strikingly pro-European message in the presidential elections of the National Front and of the traditional parties of the French politics for decades were dominated by.
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After the transfer of power left the president on the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe in the centre of Paris, where he, according to tradition, a wreath lays at the grave of the unknown soldier.
The president makes Monday the name of the prime minister known, and Tuesday the rest of his ministersploeg. His new political movement still has no seat in the French parliament and run from this week to campaign for the parliamentary elections in June will be held.