[2] Hollande, a leader of the Socialist Party, worked alongside Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault until 2014 then Manuel Valls until 2016 and finally Bernard Cazeneuve until the inauguration of Macron in 2017.
Hollande's presidency was dominated by the rising unemployment rate, the protests against reforms of the Labor code including the El Khomri law[3] and the fight against Islamic Terrorism, mainly against the ISIS.
The key economic focuses for François Hollande were the rising unemployment rate, income inequality and the deficit.
[9][10] Eventually supply side economics was adopted by the government and taxation was lowered after poor performance and tax migration by individuals with higher incomes, including Bernard Arnault.
[11] Employment was one of the key focuses for Hollande, he set an objective reversing the rising unemployment by the end of his first term.
This created the "emplois d'avenir" which gave young people between the ages of 16 and 25 contract ranging from one to three years in the public sector.
33 otherwise known as "contrat de génération" was introduced with the intention to find young people long-term contracts and make it easier for them to integrate into the labor market while securing the jobs of anyone above the age of 55.
[21] The El Khomri Law, which sought to make it easier for companies to lay off workers, reduce overtime payments for hours worked above the 35-hour work week and reduce severance payments that workers were entitled to if their company had made them redundant was passed in August 2016.
[50] Hollande attempted to modernize France's healthcare system in January 2016 with the Minister of Social Affairs and Health Marisol Touraine proposing a new law to accomplish this.
Christiane Taubira served as Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2016 and pushed through several reforms such as legalising same-sex marriage and putting France into a state of emergency.
[60] France, then chaired by François Hollande, delivered tens of thousands of bombs to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2016.
[61] At the beginning of Hollande's term, same-sex marriage and adoption for LGBT couples were legalised after the longest parliamentary debate in the history of the Fifth Republic.
[67] Hollande's policies regarding immigration have been radically different to his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy who threatened numerous times to remove France from the Schengen area.
[70] Hollande proposed removing dual citizenship from terrorists though abandoned the plan after backlash within the Socialist Party.
He began an early withdrawal in 2012[74][75] following a visit to Kabul where he addressed French soldiers and told them their "mission was finished.
[78][79] The intervention was launched in an attempt to stop the advance of Islamist insurgent groups who had taken most of the North of Mali and had begun to move towards the capital, Bamako.
[81] Operation Barkhane was started on 1 August 2014 in an attempt to stop Islamic terrorism in the region after clearing insurgents from Mali.
[82] Hollande launched Operation Sangaris in December 2013 after international aid was requested by President François Bozizé following advance by Séléka, a rebel group that had been able to capture parts of the capital.
[83] In October 2013, the Central African Republic's state lost the ability to maintain order[84][85] and the United Nations began to voice concerns of potential genocide.