François Hollande

Who is François Hollande?

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is the 24th and current president of France and co-prince of Andorra. He was previously the first secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and the deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st constituency from 1988 to 1993 and then again from 1997 to 2012. He also served as the mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008 and the president of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. He was elected president of France on 6 May 2012, defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, and was sworn in on 15 May. He is the second Socialist Party president of the French Fifth Republic, after François Mitterrand.