Hollande will be the second left-wing president of the French Fifth Republic, which saw Francois Mitterrand, founder of the French Socialist Party (PS), served two seven-year terms as president from 1981.
The president-elect, born on August 12, 1954 in northern France, has a shining education background with diplomas of Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris (HEC), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), all elite universities in France.
He served as the first secretary of the PS from 1997 to 2008, and was mayor of Tulle in central France from 2001 to 2008, as well as a member of parliament for the southwestern department of Correze.
However, Hollande has never held a government post at national level, which bothered some French voters and cast doubts over his ability to lead the country out of economic crisis.
Bespectacled and with a scholarly air, Hollande has successfully portrayed himself as a "normal president" as opposed to hyperactive Sarkozy, taking advantage of public's disappointment with the incumbent president.
In his campaign for president, Hollande pledged to fight record high unemployment, including hiring 60,000 more teachers in his term in addition to 150,000 state-aided jobs.(*/T007)
: Nyoman Budhiana
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