- Title: FRANCE: NEW PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN TAKES OFFICE
- Date: 3rd June 1997
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 3, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: EXTERIOR PRIME MINISTER'S MATIGNON OFFICE 0.07 2. GV: WAITING JOURNALISTS 0.11 3. GV: FORMER PRIME MINISTER ALAIN JUPPE ENTERING BUILDING 0.24 4. SV: EXTERIOR OF BUILDING 0.28 5. GV: WOMEN WATCHING FROM MIRROR 0.33 6. SV: GUARDS WALKING TOWARD DOOR 0.40 7. GV/PAN: JOURNALISTS, OFFICIALS ONLOOKING (2 SHOTS) 0.50 8. SV/MV: NEWLY-ELECTED FRENCH PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN ARRIVING AND SHAKING JUPPE'S HAND/ POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (2 SHOTS) 1.13 9. GV: JOURNALISTS 1.15 10. GV: JUPPE AND JOSPIN ENTERING BUILDING 1.30 11. GV/LV: BUILDING EXTERIOR WITH ONLOOKERS (2 SHOTS) 1.37 12. GV: JOSPIN AND JUPPE EXITING BUILDING AND WAVING, JUPPE ENTERING AUTOMOBILE AND LEAVES 1.54 13. MV: AUDIENCE APPLAUDING 1.58 14. GV/MVU: JOSPIN STANDING IN DOORWAY AND ACKNOWLEDGING APPLAUSE BEFORE ENTERING BUILDING (3 SHOTS) 2.15 Initials s.3 - p.3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 18th June 1997 13:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVAPN3BHUGQS93GK752L81G6P7W
- Story Text: INTRO: Newly-elected socialist French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has formally taken office, meeting his conservative predecessor, Alain Juppe, for the handover.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- The two men exchanged a cordial handshake and posed for photographers on Tuesday (June 3) in the courtyard of the prime minister's Matignon office on Paris' Left Bank.
After only a short private meeting, the 59-year-old Jospin accompanied Juppe to his waiting car, applauded by the staff of the prime minister's office.
Juppe had been in office just over two years following President Jacques Chirac's election in May 1995.
The new premier and his chief-of-staff, Olivier Schrameck, returned to work without answering questions from reporters.
Socialist party spokesman Francois Hollande said Jospin would form a smaller cabinet with more women. He hoped it would include representatives of all the left-wing parties which won Sunday's parliamentary election, including the Communists.
Before the handover, Jospin had an hour-long meeting with Communist leader Robert Hue on Tuesday morning to discuss the formation of the government.
If they decide to join the Socialists, the Communists could have two cabinet ministers and a secretary of state, an aide to Jospin said.
The new prime minister intends to form a government by the end of the week and is expected to deliver his keynote policy speech to parliament on June 17.
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