join the en will be tempted tojoin the en marche movement. these allegations against francois fillon, he would have been a favourite for centre—right and his expenses and salaries are now under the microscope and that effectively led to the fact that he fell out of the race and did not make it through to the second round. i think it is fair to say when the scandal broke, the state job scandal, he would've been a shoo—in, for fillon. he had a formidable vehicle behind him help, he took over as sarkozy as head of the party and he was hugely popular. everybody was absolutely convinced that he was going to be the next president and all of a sudden, this scandal broke out which has to do with the effectively self enrichment and i think that is what made an awful lot of difference in the minds of french people who, let's be honest, i used

to be corruption of the political class of france, either on the left or on class of france, either on the left or on the right, but the difference was, unlike others who also got criminal charges against them for all sorts of corruption with the party, it had to do with enriching the party and not themselves and i think that is the main difference that has stuck with the french people. that was the twist of fate that helped emmanuel macron on the right. what happened with regard to the socialist? they had a primary which ended up in a candidate being chosen who were so far to the left that he did not represent the centre, the right of the party and utter innocence was another sense of luck for emmanuel macron? to a certain extent, it could be argued that he is responsible for the fragmentation of the left. he came in as fragmentation of the left. he came inasa fragmentation of the left. he came in as a money man to hollande's government and he started implementing very right—wing, some

people would say, liberalising economic policies which divided the left and absolutely angered an awful lot of traditional socialist. it effectively lead to the explosion of the left into three separate parties. the hard life, jean—luc melenchon, the official candidate for the socialist was another, the social democrat, emmanuel macron who woi'i social democrat, emmanuel macron who won the race in the end. we are just waiting. as many of the people in the elysee palace are for former, waiting. as many of the people in the elysee palace are forformer, or the elysee palace are forformer, or the outgoing president francois hollande to emerge. from that meeting with emmanuel macron, the incoming president, the handover of power, the conversation between the two men. they know each other so well. handing over the nuclear codes as well. this very private meeting is critical. it is absolutely crucial to this whole process, isn't it? absolutely. it is the effective

handover of power that is happening at the moment. in a short period of time, we will see president hollande out of the elysee palace, honoured by the republican guard salute, of course he will be welcomed at any time by the macrons in the elysee palace as well and will follow the actual inauguration ceremony which is very solemn and will happen in the ballroom at the elysee palace, as has been the case under the fifth public. it has not been the case under the third and fourth republics where it took place in the room at versailles. so, while we wait here, just outside the elysee palace looking at the crowds that opposite, waiting for francois hollande, the outgoing president to emerge, once he has got into a car, we saw parked, at the end of the 60 metres of red—carpet, he will drive away and that is the end of his term in office. under blue skies now, the

rain has stopped, thankfully, here in paris. the moment, back to you, ben, in the studio. thank you very much indeed. those talks between the outgoing president hollande and his protege, the new president 39—year—old emmanuel macron, those talks seem to be going on a little bit longer than we had expected. but they are, as we know, two men who know each other very well and they have got plenty to talk about, the future of france and the transfer of those nuclear codes. paris correspondent hugh schofield, that is, innocence, some of the most important business of the day. we have all this ceremonial but as the tra nsfer of have all this ceremonial but as the transfer of the nuclear codes that is crucial there. transfer of the nuclear codes that is crucialthere. i've been reading up is crucialthere. i've been reading up on the nuclear codes, is it really be nuclear codes, what does it mean? do they have to memorise

it? in fact what it is we use the shorthand in nuclear codes, what it is it is a code, it is a code that identifies him as the president. in other words, when there is a crisis and the armed forces chiefs are, on the stand—by, in order to identify himself to them to say look, i am giving the order to launch the nuclear missiles, he needs to have some kind of identifier and that is what is handed over to him at this meeting. presumably in must change as well. more than that, i do not know. it is not the kind of code that launches a nuclear missile, it is the identifierfor the president. and the anecdote that goes with it that in 1981 when the president was handing over to the next, he had this meeting which is going on now between macron. hollande, and gave him the information and it was on a piece of paper and he put it in the

pocket of his suit that later in the day, he changed his suit and lucy 20 the dry cleaners! sony pocket of deceit going to the dry cleaners was the president's personal identifier which would allow him to lodge nuclear war. fortunately of course the suit was recuperated in time when the problem was spotted and nothing ever leaked out. but that is the story. it is a very good story. you have the image of mr macron scribbling down numbers on a scrap of paper. i cannot imagine it as basic as that today. look, the sky over paris has lifted. it is a beautiful blue sky now because it was raining rather heavily one were talking to a colleague earlier. perhaps that is a symbol of a bright new dawn for france as it enters its new dawn for france as it enters its new presidency. and the car that i will take away the outgoing president hollande. what are your thoughts on this day? a very

political significant day for france. well, on a more trivial meteorological question, everyone remembers this day five years ago when hollande had just been inaugurated and made his way up champs—elysee and it started bucketing with rain and he was sodden and his suits started taking on this airof sodden and his suits started taking on this air of sheen on it. well, the weather is certainly looking better today. there is finally the moment we have been waiting for. the new president and the old president side—by—side, after that meeting that we have just been talking about, where they work, amongst other things, discussing the nuclear codes. and emmanuel macron, as hugh

schofield wishes telling us, being given the code that identified him as the man who can trigger a nuclear response from france. and applause as the two men walk along the red carpet that leads francois hollande to the car that will take him away from the elysee palace for the last time. and a handshake and a tap on the shoulderfor the time. and a handshake and a tap on the shoulder for the new president, emmanuel macron. from the man, francois hollande who brought him into his government as economy minister and has watched him rise to power. francois hollande applauded by his protege as he steps into the back of that modest car, a ways to his successor. a —— his successor.

leading with a mixed legacy. seen as by an author as a failure, his popularity rating slumped. a wave in the sunshine. as he leaves. applause as he is driven out through the gates for the last time. the crowds outside the elysee that are an emmanuel macron now walks back alone along the red carpet to the elysee for the formal inauguration ceremony as francois hollande is driven away. mr macron with his wife brigitte. the women he met when he was her

drama student at school, just a teenager and he wrote the play, apparently, that she wished hugely impressed by and all of france has been impressed by his talent and he has risen with meteoric speed as these races up those stairs with great energy, bounding up the stairs, just showing what a young president he is. only 39 years of age. but is it going to be a revolution in france or is it is going to be more of the same? that is what hugh schofield was discussing whether because, of course, he has been francois hollande's protege and many of his critics, mr macron, will say, he is just part of the old hollande regime

who is going to continue the same policies. 50, who is going to continue the same policies. so, he's goforth, paris correspondent, just talk is what really happens now. how does this inauguration actually take place?m these sort of constitutional ceremonial, there is no actual, i do not think, moment of handing on of power. there is no anointing of the king like there would be in the cathedral in the old days, the moment of the anointing he becomes king. ithink moment of the anointing he becomes king. i think it isjust happening now as we speak. at some point in this hour, the hour that has been on the hour that has yet to come, he becomes president. you could see it as the moment when francois hollande tries away all the moment when the president of the cost youtube council reads out the results of the elections which he is going to do now. maybe that is the moment when

it is recorded publicly that he was elected and is now president. it is not known and it is not really matter. what is certainly knowing that when he emerges, i think out of the back door, add to the garden of the back door, add to the garden of the elysee onto the champs—elysee, he is the president and the country looks and realises that there is a new leader. a bit like in britain, in the french way, there is a mystery surrounding all of theirs which is part of the sacramental is of high office in france. no one can put theirfinger on it. it isjust what happens. but as we speak, he is becoming president. he will make that speech in a second and then he will be anointed and inducted, shall we say, as grand master of the legion of honour and that is a symbolic moment as well, going back to napoleon because the grand master of the legion of honour is the

president. he will make the speech, go president. he will make the speech, 9° up president. he will make the speech, go up the champs—elysee and then it will be to business. the ceremony will be to business. the ceremony will be to business. the ceremony will be forgotten. there is another moment this afternoon where he goes to meet the mayor of paris. but as pa rt to meet the mayor of paris. but as part of tradition. it will be very quickly down to business for emmanuel macron because there is an awful lot to do. and he was to be seen as someone who gets down to business very quickly. i'm good to be very interested to see whether he is one of those presidents who acts in the first few months knowing that will make him an unpopular but to get the unpopularity over with first or whether he is someone, a bit like hollande, who dithers and nothing gets done much. i think he's going to be more like someone who decides to be more like someone who decides to ta ke to be more like someone who decides to take the heat early on with some fairly dramatic early decision. and you talk about his energy. when we saw him running up the stairs there, he seemed to be wanting to show that he seemed to be wanting to show that he isa he seemed to be wanting to show that he is a very young and vigorous president. and different in a way to

predecessors and from hollande. completely. he knows he represents this generational change. he knows that for many young people, particularly of the kind of aspiring middle classes, people who do not wa nt to middle classes, people who do not want to give up on optimism, people you want to feel that france has got a place in the new world, he represents them, they are a generation who feel they have been badly done by by the failure of france to reform. they are people that feel like the older generation of people, the people who emerge from the 1968 may cultural revolution that followed that, they have been done out of their birthright, that the people in the old generation have held onto their jobs, they have got the good positions and the scot on them and they have said, if you want to come getjobs, you have your own rebellion. there is this resentment, i think among middle—class and younger people who still the place should be shaken up so that their

chance in the sun should come. he represents them and was too generally open up the french economy, along liberal lines so that is more easy the younger people to get a ccess is more easy the younger people to get access to jobs and that the youthful energy, as he jumped get access to jobs and that the youthful energy, as hejumped up those stairs, is a signal that he was to give up to this country. we are seeing brigitte, his wife, 64 yea rs are seeing brigitte, his wife, 64 years old, many people have talked a lot and been ratherfascinated by this relationship, this great story, the romance of the schoolboy meeting his drama teacher and then marrying her. how important? she's going to bea her. how important? she's going to be a very different first lady in the elysee. she may well get a proper status. one of emmanuel macron's plans is devoted to the rule book, whatever that is, whether it isa rule book, whatever that is, whether it is a law or decree, something

that says that france can have a first lady. there is nothing in the rule book, the constitution about their wife or spouse, partner of the president. i think he wants to officially start which is not uncontroversial because many people in france will say that is not part of our republican traditions, family members have no role in the running of our state, of our country, his view would be, well, we have lived ina very view would be, well, we have lived in a very hypocritical situation where it has always been women, the women have had different kind of roles and it has caused embarrassment and it has cause awkwardness, let's just have something proper. ithink awkwardness, let's just have something proper. i think it is also find sign of his devotion to the woman. they are very, very close. he depends on her emotionally, we saw in documentaries that brokers are the one last sunday how she played a crucial role in the campaign, who was often there in the sidelines, chastising him, do not eat chocolate, that sort of way. they

are very close. she has an input, she is critical of him, she minds him, she has ideas. he regards as someone very, him, she has ideas. he regards as someone very, very him, she has ideas. he regards as someone very, very important in his life and she is not ashamed to make that public. he is not ashamed to make public. he would rather make it public. she will have a very prominent part to play. we are just waiting there in the ballroom of the elysee for the reading out of the election results. as you were saying, that is an important part of the ceremony, isn't it? the reading out of the official declaration of the election results. odyssey we all know them and we have known for quite a long time. i hope and i seem to remember that he only reads out round to results otherwise it would ta ke round to results otherwise it would take a rather long time. he was the former socialist prime minister, the one who drew up the european

constitution which came to grief and has now been elevated in his elder yea rs has now been elevated in his elder years to president of the constitutional council which is extremely important body in france, in mind the constitution, it ove rsees in mind the constitution, it oversees the questions of whether laws are in conformity with the constitution. but also provides over at occasions like this, in a sense that he is the voice of the constitution. i hear music. yes, here is the new president of france, emmanuel macron. music plays

the president of the republic, last sunday, the 7th of may, 2017, following an unusual electric campaign in many ways, you receive 20,000,740 3000, 128 votes campaign in many ways, you receive 20,000,740 3000,128 votes in the second round of the presidential

election. an absolute majority of votes. implementing articles six and seven votes. implementing articles six and seven of our constitution, the cost issue —— constitutional council or the kurds you elected president of the kurds you elected president of the republic. the aids president elected with universal suffrage of the republic. this sunday 14th of may in the specific moment you are entering your mandate. we will give you your mess and so congratulations, mr president of the republic. in a phrase that takes full meaning, in order to be the man of 1's country, you have to be the man of your time. man of our time and out of the u r. by your choice, yourtraining, your

and out of the u r. by your choice, your training, your pass and even your training, your pass and even your society position and by sovereign choice of the people, you are the man of our country. responsible for representing it everywhere in the metropolis and overseas, everywhere in the metropolis and overseas, in europe and in the world. the president of the french republic, head of state, head of the army ‘s, armed forces, president of our republic which is indivisible, secular, democratic and social, responsible for representing it and making it progress. in body and the values and the language and putting it together. and that is to say in this time, in this world, this new world where there great perspectives

coming up against major risks for planet, the main importance than the difficulty of your mission leads the government which is self controlled by parliament, in order to appease angen by parliament, in order to appease anger, you you repair injury, to eliminate doubt, to show the path and to embody hope. that is why, mr president, your success will be the success of france and that is why we offer you for your mandate to keep the people close to you and yourself, are very warm wishes of success. translation: mr president of the republic, we recognise you as being

a great master of the national order of the legion of honour. so your manual macron verb being presented with the grand cross of the legion of honour which all presidents are given. —— emmanuel macron. he will not wear it, he is presented with it as the new president. and there, just signing the order of the legion of honour. and you heard the saying to him to be the man of our country, you has to be the man of our times. and that is what he said, emmanuel macron is. translation: presidentialas is what he said, emmanuel macron is. translation: presidential as the cost issue council, ladies and gentlemen, chairs, ladies and

gentlemen, chairs, ladies and gentlemen, the french have chosen, as you reminded us, in the spirit of congress and the whole world has looked at our presidential election, everywhere people were wondering whether the french would decide in turn to go back to the past, it solutions, whether they would break with the way the world is going, yield to democratic defiance. the feeling of division turning the buck to the lights. or, on the other hand, with the embrace the future, give themselves collectively new momentum, reaffirming the values that have made of it are great people? on the 7th of may, the french chose and let us thank them here. the responsibility that they gave me is an honour and i measured its seriousness the world and

europe, more than ever, need france. they need a strong france, sure of its own destiny. they need a france which raises hide the voice of liberty and solidarity, they need a france which knows how to invade the future. the world needs what the french people, men and women, have a lwa ys french people, men and women, have always taught it, the daring of freedom, the requirements of the quality and a will for fred fred —— fraternity. frantz quality and a will for fred fred —— fraternity. fra ntz has quality and a will for fred fred —— fraternity. frantz has belted itself and its culture, its social model, it has doubts in what it has made. —— france has belted itself. there will be to demand in my mandate. the

first will be to give to be french people is confident of itself which, for too long, has been weakened. and ican for too long, has been weakened. and i can reassure for too long, has been weakened. and 1 can reassure you, for too long, has been weakened. and i can reassure you, i have not for a moment thought things would stay as they worked in the 7th of may in the evening, it would be slow work and demanding but indispensable. it will be my role to convince the french people that our country wishing to be in difficulty with the sometimes contrary currents of the world, that they will use all its resources to be among the first of nations. i will convince our citizens that the power of france is not declining, that we are on the edge of the great renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which make and will make the great powers of the 21st century. to do that, i will yield in nothing on the commitments

made with respect to the french people. everything which gives vigour to the france and prosperity will be implemented, work will be made free, companies will be supported, initiatives will be encouraged, culture and education, which gives rise to emancipation, creation, innovation, these will be at the heart of my actions. the french people, men and women who feel forgotten by this great movement in the world, they will have to see themselves better protected. everything which forges our national solidarity will be reformulated, reinvented and equality are respectively incidence of life will be strengthened. everything which makes france a country sure where it is possible to live without fear will be amplified, secularism, republican centralism

will be defended. the forces of law and order, our armies strengthened. the europe that we need will be remoulded, relaunch because it protects us in the world to create something new is, our institutions, criticised by some, have two, in the eyes of the french people, get back the effectiveness which gives their longevity. i will do everything in my power for it to operate according to the spread of which it was created. and so that, i will ensure that our country has new democratic vitality and citizens will be listened to. they will see in that challenge, i will need all of you, there is policy of all the elites, political, economic, social, religious, all the bodies of the

french nation, they will be called upon. we can no longer take refuge behind usages or habits which are sometimes pass their time. we have to get back to the deep meeting, the dignity of what today brings us together. to act in a just way, in an effective way for people. france is only strong if it prospers, france is only a model for the world if it is an example. exemplary and thatis if it is an example. exemplary and that is my second requirement because we will have given back to the french for the future and ready to what they are, the world will pay attention to what transfers because we will be unable to, together, go beyond our fears and anxieties, we will be unable to, together, go beyond ourfears and anxieties, we will, together, give the example of

the people which knows how to affirm its values, its principles, which are those of democracy and the republic. the efforts of my predecessors have been remarkable, on those lines, i am thinking of charles de gaulle,