There needs to be greater transparency. The French deserve to know the truth. They have the right to know the nature of the illness of their head of state.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.