I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

I am the president of the youth of France.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.