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"Sarkozy who does not drink wine and is pro-American wants to become president of France"
PARIS – What would be more unthinkable: a French president who doesn't drink wine, who is proudly pro-American, or who thinks France has been too arrogant in world affairs? In Nicolas Sarkozy, all of the above would apply.
Sarkozy is viewed by many as a divisive figure, causing concern with his courtship of far-right voters and promise to cut coveted workplace protections. Many black and Arab immigrants and their French-born children despise the tough police tactics he has instituted in hard-scrabble housing projects as interior minister, his uncompromising language, and his sometimes roughly executed drive to send illegal immigrants back to Africa and elsewhere. His ambition has alienated some old-guard conservatives and supporters of Chirac, who is not expected to seek a third term. Biographers suggest Sarkozy's determination is fueled by his unhappy childhood in a broken home, as well as by his battle, as an immigrant's son with a foreign sounding name, to win respectability in a political system dominated by France's elite.
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