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Sarkozy Congratulates Fillon on Winning French Republican Nomination

© AFP 2023 / DOMINIQUE FAGET Head of French right-wing party Les Republicains and former President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during a campaign meeting of the Les Republicains' candidate for the December regional elections in Ile-de-France on September 27, 2015
Head of French right-wing party Les Republicains and former President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during a campaign meeting of the Les Republicains' candidate for the December regional elections in Ile-de-France on September 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy congratulated Francois Fillon on Sunday on winning the nomination of The Republicans party.

French former President and head of French right-wing opposition party Les Republicains (LR) Nicolas Sarkozy - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Fillon is in the lead with 68.4 percent of votes after the Sunday primary. In the presidential run he is expected to face far-right Front National's Marine Le Pen and a nominee of the ruling Socialist Party, who will be picked in January.

"I want to convey my sincere congratulations to Francois Fillon on his victory tonight and wish him luck in the upcoming political battle," Hollande wrote in a statement.

He praised Fillon’s challenger Alain Juppe for defending his ideas but added the moment has come for the center-right party to rally around Fillon to "guarantee a change that France needs more than ever in 2017."

The French presidential elections will take place in April and May 2017.

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