French President Francois Hollande will formally hand power to his newly elected successor Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.
Macron won the French presidential election on Sunday by what is expected to be a huge margin, as leaders in France and beyond hailed it as a victory for the European Union.
Macron, 39, easily beat far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen after a bitter contest pitting his pro-EU liberal platform against her calls for France to close its borders and pull out of the euro single currency.
He will be the youngest ever president of France, and the first in over a century to be elected by popular vote without the backing of an established political party.
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