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   Nicolas Sarkozy

   Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) centre-right party. ... 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 opposed in particular the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party led by Sarkozy. ... | Nicolas Sarkozy | UMP | 53% |
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   Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy

   Sarkozy's conservative party braced for a possible setback as voting got under way in March 16 2008 local elections which was seen as the new conservative leader's first electoral test and a barometer of the strengh of his Union for a Popular Movement-party, which was hoping to hang on Marseille and Toulouse. ... ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy braces for election bruising, CNN, 16 March 2008
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   Union for the Mediterranean

   French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed the Union during his election campaign. ... Disagreements with Germany led to a mini summit between the two leaders being delayed three months until June 2008, however Sarkozy still plans to hold a summit on 13 July involving the relevant EU states and the southern countries.
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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. ... Union for a Popular Movement
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   Dominique de Villepin

   In addition, his mutual distaste for Nicolas Sarkozy, head of the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) majority party, is well-known. ... 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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   Politics of France

   These included the right-wing of the Radical Party, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), the Christian-democrat Popular Republican Movement (MRP), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republicans (RI), the Union for a French Democracy (UDF) and, today, a large majority of the politicians of Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). ... This led to President Chirac's appointment of Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP) as the new prime minister.
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   HIV trial in Libya

   This led to charges being filed against 10 Libyan security personnel, some of whom later claimed they had also been tortured, tortured to confess that they had tortured the medics. ... ↑ Press conference of Nicolas Sarkozy in Elysée Palace, broadcasted on all major French TV channels, on July 24 at 10:15 CEST.
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   Response to the 2005 civil unrest in France

   "It is strictly forbidden for any Muslim... to take part in any action that strikes blindly at private or public property or that could threaten the lives of others," said the fatwa by the controversed Union of Islamic Organisations of France (UIOF), favored by Nicolas Sarkozy. ... It rejected a complaint from 74 law professors (led by Frédéric Rolin) and the Green party, declaring that the conditions that led to the unrest, the quick spread of violence and the possibility that it could recur justify the state of emergency.
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    Clearstream

    Clearstream secret accounts also allegedly held part of the Argentine debt which led to the December 2001 riots. ... On January 31, 2006, Nicolas Sarkozy sued.

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