François Hollande

Known for ActingBorn 1954-08-12 (age 71)Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Prior to his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, as well as President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also held the 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly twice, from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 until 2012. Born in Rouen and raised in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hollande began his political career as a special advisor to newly elected President François Mitterrand, before serving as a staffer for Max Gallo, the government's spokesman. He became a member of the National Assembly in 1988 and was elected First Secretary of the PS in 1997. Following the 2004 regional elections won by the PS, Hollande was cited as a potential presidential candidate, but he resigned as First Secretary and was immediately elected to replace Jean-Pierre Dupont as President of the General Council of Corrèze in 2008. In 2011, Hollande announced that he would be a candidate in the primary election to select the PS presidential nominee; he won the nomination against Martine Aubry, before he was elected to the presidency (becoming also, ex officio, Co-Prince of Andorra) on 6 May 2012 in the second round with 51.6% of the vote, defeating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. During his tenure, Hollande legalized same-sex marriage by passing Bill no. 344, reformed labour laws and credit training programmes, signed a law restricting the cumul des mandats, and withdrew French forces in Afghanistan, in addition to concluding an EU directive on the protection of animals in laboratory research through a Franco-German contract. Hollande led the country through the January and November 2015 Paris attacks, as well as the 2016 Nice attack. He was a leading proponent of EU mandatory migrant quotas and NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya. He also sent troops to Mali and the Central African Republic with the approval of the UN Security Council in order to stabilise those countries, two operations however largely seen as failures. He drew controversy among his left-wing electoral base for supporting the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Under Hollande’s presidency, Paris hosted the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference and his efforts to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to the city were successful. However, with domestic troubles – in particular due to Islamic terrorism – over the course of his tenure, and unemployment rising to 10%, he faced spikes and downturns in approval rates, ultimately making him the most unpopular head of state under the Fifth Republic. On 1 December 2016, he announced he would not seek reelection in the 2017 presidential election, for which polls suggested his defeat in the first round. ... Source: Article "François Hollande" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite

Maurice Audin, a story of mathematicians

Spécial Investigation

Tous en scène! Ou spectacles d'une élection

The World in Front

LEGEND

Face à face pour l'Élysée

L'Adieu à Solférino

Trump Takes On the World

The Abdallah Case

The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

La Fabrique du mensonge

The Apartment

Le parcours d'un roi - Le Maroc de Mohammed VI

Dissolution, histoire d'un séisme politique

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

Laboratory Greece

Mon Chirac

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français

François Hollande, le mal-aimé

November 13: Attack on Paris

Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion

The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac

The New Watchdogs

November

Ukraine: the Road to War

Président : le prix à payer - Face à la rue

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi

Moi, candidat

Les jours heureux

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks

The Blues: Another Story of France

Die Nacht von Paris - Terror am Stade de France

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Anelka: Misunderstood

La banlieue, c’est le paradis

Liberté, égalité, improvisez !

Hollande, DSK, etc ...

Christiane Taubira : une loi pour mémoire

Sacrée Sécu

Cent jours

C à vous

À l'Élysée, un temps de président

Quotidien

« Moi, diplomate ! » — Le monde de François Hollande