the evenings of victory of the former presidents

Presidential elections have often been marked by great moments that have gone down in history. On the 11 p.m. set of Franceinfo on Saturday April 23, journalist Jean-Christophe Galeazzi returns in particular to the victory of Valery Giscard D’Estaing on May 19, 1974. Facing his activists, he had made them a promise. “You will not be disappointed because it is the change that I will lead with you”, he announced. It was in 1981, during the duel between Valery Giscard D’Estaing and François Mitterrand, that something new appeared: that day, at 8 p.m., an electronic portrait had displayed the face of the new president for the first time.

On May 7, 1995, the evening of his victory, Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris, spoke from the town hall before going to his HQ after 10 p.m. His car was followed closely by journalists from France 2 but he did not answer their questions. Nicolas Sarkozy, elected on May 6, 2017, had stopped at Fouquet’s, the famous restaurant on the Champs-Elysées, before joining his supporters who were waiting for him at Place de la Concorde. A party that “will be controversial”, recalls Jean-Christophe Galeazzi. On the evening of his victory, May 6, 2012, François Hollande was in Tulle (Corrèze) while a rally also took place at Place de la Bastille in Paris. The new president had joined them afterwards.