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Article: Roundup: Sarkozy wins French presidential race
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 6, 2007
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Roundup: Sarkozy wins French presidential race
PARIS, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy has won the
French presidential race by winning 53.7 percent of the vote in
Sunday's run-off with Socialist Segolene Royal, preliminary results
show.
He will succeed 74-year-old Jacques Chirac, who has ruled for 12
years.
"I should be the president of all the French people and should
speak on behalf of all the French," Sarkozy told thousands of
jubilant supporters at the headquarters of his ruling Union of a
Popular Movement.
"This is not the victory of one France over another. It is the
victory of democracy, and of French values," said Sarkozy.
Promising that he wants to give the ...