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A New Breed of President
Presidential elections in 2007 ushered out old-school Jacques Chirac (in his 70s
with two terms under his belt) and brought in Nicolas Sarkozy (b 1955). Dynamic,
ambitious and far from media-shy, the former interior minister and chairman of
centre-right party UMP
(Union pour un Mouvement Populaire)
wooed voters with
big talk about job creation, lower taxes, crime crackdown and help for France's im-
migrant population - something that had particular pull coming from the son of a
Hungarian immigrant father and Greek Jewish-French mother.
Yet rather than the work of knuckling down to implement his rigorous economic
reform platform, it was Sarkozy's personal affairs that got the attention in his first
months in office - falling out of love with wife Cecilia, divorcing, falling in love with
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