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Last Modified: 11 Jan 2007
By: Jonathan Rugman

Nicolas Sarkozy may lead a divided centre-right party into the French presidential elections.

Nicolas Sarkozy (Reuters)

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He's the government minister who's promising a break with the past, the son of an immigrant who's dismissed young delinquents as "rabble".

French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be named as the centre-right's candidate for president this weekend.

But 100 days before the elections, his party is deeply divided.

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