Nicolas Sarkozy
Overview
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current
Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, candidate of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement , was elected President in May 2007, and became the sixth President of the French Fifth Republic on May 16, 2007. He nominated François Fillon as Prime minister, who formed a composite government, a bit modified following...

 President of the French Republic
President of the French Republic
The President of the French Republic colloquially referred to in English as the President of France, is France's elected Head of State....

 and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 candidate Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

 10 days earlier.

Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

 (UMP).
Discussions
Quotations

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

Le Monde, 2005

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

Interview with Charlie Rose, televised 31 January 2007

If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.

Interview with Charlie Rose, televised 31 January 2007

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

UMP meeting 22 April

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family.

What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation.

 
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