23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
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France's president from 2007 to 2012, who steered the country through financial crisis and Arab Spring upheaval, then became the first French ex-president convicted of corruption — currently serving prison time for a conspiracy with Muammar Gaddafi.
Born in Paris in January 1955, Sarkozy climbed from mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1983 through budget and interior ministries to lead the UMP party. He won the presidency in 2007 with 53.1% against Ségolène Royal, navigating the 2008 crash, European debt crisis, and negotiating a ceasefire in the Russo-Georgian War. He reformed universities and pensions, married Carla Bruni at the Élysée in 2008, then lost reelection to François Hollande by 3.2% in 2012. A brief return as party leader ended with primary defeat in 2016. Prosecutors charged him with corruption tied to alleged Libyan election int…
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I want to issue a call to everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny, by dictatorships.
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.
If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable.
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.
To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
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