In , 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 in the second round with During his tenure, Hollande legalized same-sex marriage by passing Bill no.
Hollande led the country through the January and November Paris attacks, as well as the Nice attack. 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.
Hollande was born on 12 August in Rouen. The earliest known member of the Hollande family lived c. When Hollande was thirteen, the family moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine , a highly exclusive suburb of Paris. He completed his military service in the French Army in Hollande lived in the United States in the summer of while he was a university student.
Hollande lost to Chirac in the first round. He went on to become a special advisor to newly elected President Mitterrand, before serving as a staffer for Max Gallo , the government's spokesman. Hollande lost his bid for re-election to the Assembly in the so-called "blue wave" of the election , described as such due to the number of seats gained by the Right at the expense of the Socialist Party.
As the end of Mitterrand's term in office approached, the Socialist Party was torn by a struggle of internal factions, each seeking to influence the direction of the party. Hollande pleaded for reconciliation and for the party to unite behind Jacques Delors , the President of the European Commission , but Delors renounced his ambitions to run for the French presidency in Former party leader Lionel Jospin resumed his position, and selected Hollande to become the official party spokesman.
