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   Union for a Popular Movement

   On 22 April 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy won the plurality of votes in the first round of the 2007 presidential election.
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   French presidential election, 2007

   Results of the first round in Metropolitan France: the candidate with the plurality of votes in each administrative division. ... In social categories, Sarkozy won majorities among pensioned and inactive elders (58%), CEOs, negotiants and craftworkers (82% ), categories which are traditionally conservative.
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   Feminism in France

   The media frenzy surrounding Cécilia Sarkozy, former wife of the current President Nicolas Sarkozy, would mark the culmination of this current. ... Sarkozy won in a tight contest, but one year later, polls showed voters regreted not sending Royal to the Elysse Palace, and she would win a 2008 match up with Sarkozy easily.
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   José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

   Ten days later, on 18 January 2004, Zapatero announced that he would only become prime minister if the Spanish Socialist Workers Party received plurality, renouncing possible parliamentary alliances in advance if that situation did not happen after the election. ... This started a short lived polemic between France's Nicolas Sarkozy and the Spanish premier Rodríguez Zapatero.
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   French legislative election, 2007

   Otherwise, if they get at least 12.5% of the votes of all registered voters in the first round, or are one of the top two candidates remaining, they go through to the second round, where only a simple plurality is needed to win. ... Opinion polls and seat projections gave President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP-led coalition a wide lead, sometimes nearing three-quarters of all 577 seats.
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   2008 South Ossetia war

   Later on the same day, he met the President-in-Office of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and approved a six-point peace plan.
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   Russian-Georgian war

   On 12 August Russian President Medvedev met the President-in-Office of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and approved a six-point peace plan.
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   Protests against the invasion of Afghanistan

   Only 11% think the situation in Afghanistan is improving, while the plurality 37% think the situation is getting worse. ... ↑ "Pressure grows on Nicolas Sarkozy for Afghanistan pullout".
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   Georgia (country)

   On August 12, Russian President Medvedev met the President-in-Office of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and approved a six-point peace plan. ... It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies.
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    Socialist Party (France)

    The party's candidate for the 2007 presidential election, Ségolène Royal, was defeated by Nicolas Sarkozy by about 53% to 47%. ... His cabinet included 4 center-right ministers but it was supported by only a plurality in the National Assembly elected in June 1988.

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