Burkina Faso's new President Roch Marc Christian Kabore who was sworn in on Tuesday, has promised to initiate "fruitful social dialogue."

"I commit to initiate fruitful social dialogue with all Burkinabes so that together we can end our misery, and build a strong, dignified and respected republic," Kabore said.

This will demand that we all acknowledge the state and its crucial role in handling of public affairs as well as its overall authority in harmonious functioning of republican institutions in order to guarantee good governance for the benefit of all citizens," Kabore, 58, said in his speech after being sworn in.

Elected in the first round of the Nov. 29 presidential elections with 53.46 percent of the votes, Kabore with his party, People's Movement for Progress obtained 55 parliamentarians out of 127 parliamentary seats against 33 parliamentarians for his closest challenger, Zephirin Diabre.

The Congress for Democracy and Progress of former president Blaise Compaore, got 18 members of parliament.

Fourteen members of parliament from seven smaller political parties, on Monday formed a parliamentary group to join the presidential majority camp and support Kabore.

Speaking during the swearing ceremony, the president of Burkina Faso's Constitutional Council Kassoum Kambou reminded the new president that "starting Tuesday, he had ceased being the leader of a partisan group and was now the president of all Burkinabes for a period of five years."

A parliamentary source told Xinhua on Tuesday that the Speaker of Parliament would be elected on Wednesday. Endit

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