Socialist Hollande wins French presidency

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Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades.

Addressing jubilant supporters in the French capital, Paris, he called for a change in Europe's austerity direction.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports.

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