Sarkozy sworn in as France's new
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been officially invested as France's new president following a handover ceremony with outgoing head of state Jacques Chirac at the
Elysee palace.
The 52-year-old right-winger was ceremonially proclaimed France's 23rd president by the head of the Constitutional Council, following a private meeting
with Mr
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"From this day on you are the embodiment of France, you symbolise the Republic and you represent all French people," Jean-Louis Debre told Mr Sarkozy
after officially proclaiming the results of the May 6 election.
Mr Sarkozy and Mr Chirac exchanged a long handshake in the courtyard of the Elysee presidential palace before Mr Chirac got into his car and was driven out
of the palace for
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In the symbolic handover ceremony, the 74-year-old
Golden Goose Mid Star Mr Chirac passed on the launch codes to France's nuclear arsenal and briefed his successor on current agenda items.
Later the new president was to rekindle the flame on the tomb of the unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe and
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leader.
He will then fly to Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where the future of the European Union will be
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A former interior minister and head of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Mr Sarkozy was elected president on a promise
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Royal.
- AFP
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