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   Nicolas Sarkozy

   In party elections of November 2004, Sarkozy became leader of the UMP with 85% of the vote. ... Nicolas Sarkozy disapproved of the US-led invasion of Iraq, but was nonetheless critical of the way Jacques Chirac and his foreign minister Dominique de Villepin expressed France's opposition to the war.
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   French presidential election, 2007

   He is the leader of the UMP and was Interior Minister until stepping down to focus on his campaign on 26 March 2007. ... | Nicolas Sarkozy | UMP | 53% |
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   Politics of France

   While, inside the UMP which he led, Nicolas Sarkozy was largely uncontested (other possible candidates such as Michèle Alliot-Marie having no real hopes), a bitter campaign opposed three left-wing hopefuls: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Ségolène Royal and Laurent Fabius, each defending a different version of social-democracy. ... However, the following legislative elections did not yield the expected "blue wave" of conservatives; Sarkozy's UMP actually obtained fewer seats than in the previous Assembly.
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   Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy

   The UMP, Sarkozy's party, won a majority at the June 2007 legislative election, although by less than expected. ... ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy braces for election bruising, CNN, 16 March 2008
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   Dominique de Villepin

   However, Nicolas Sarkozy was chosen to represent the centre-right UMP party. ... But let us not forget that having won the war, one has to build peace." (address on Iraq at the United Nations Security Council on 14 February 2003, shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq )
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   Union for a Popular Movement

   The unpopularity with the electorate of Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government led most members of the UMP to support Nicolas Sarkozy, a rival of Chirac.
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   Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz

   Cécilia has no official function in UMP, but she had an office at the campaign headquarters of her husband in 2007. ... "Is Nicolas Sarkozy's wife his femme fatale?".
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   Cécilia Attias

   Cécilia has no official function in UMP, but she had an office at the campaign headquarters of her husband in 2007. ... "Is Nicolas Sarkozy's wife his femme fatale?".
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   Abolitionism

   Famous writer Aimé Césaire, leader of the Négritude movement, refused to meet UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who cancelled his planned visit to Martinique. ... These prosecutions have led to freedom for over 1000 enslaved workers in the tomato and orange fields of South Florida.
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    Ségolène Royal

    Since December 2006 Royal has been travelling abroad extensively in order to enhance her international profile and credibility, but her efforts have been set back by a series of blunders, which her political opponents at UMP have been quick to jump on. ... Nicolas Sarkozy

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• Nicolas Sarkozy,
• French presidential election, 2007,
• Politics of France,
• Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy,
• Dominique de Villepin,
• Union for a Popular Movement,
• Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz,
• Cécilia Attias,
• Abolitionism,
• Ségolène Royal