He ran for the 2002 presidency, but was beaten into third place by far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The far-right leader has also caused alarm by pledging to halt immigration into Austria and to oppose EU enlargement.
Indeed, he is the right leader for this moment in American history.
Sweden's centre-right leader, Fredrik Reinfeldt, is reluctant to be seen attacking his country's generous social model by trimming benefits, pay and pensions.
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An alliance with the flamboyant center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi is unthinkable -- which leaves Monti the most likely candidate to support a Bersani-lead government.
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The search committee and the entire Board concluded that he is the right leader to return the core business to a path of robust growth and industry-leading innovation.
Political parties have sparred for weeks over suitable candidates to succeed Giorgio Napolitano, whose term expires next month, but center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi have reportedly now reached agreement.
In a large campaign rally Sunday, Mr. Sarkozy ramped up his nationalist rhetoric, in an appeal to the nearly 6.5 million people who cast their ballots for far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the first round.
It is not the leadership style in a vacuum that is as important as selecting the right leader based upon aligning style with the environmental, situational and contextual circumstances of the time, along with the mission at hand.
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Mr. Sarkozy spoke of what he said were the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and radical Islam, a theme he has been mining in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to attract supporters of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who took 17.9% of the votes in the first round of the election.
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And though nearly all those fingered are on the left, a few are not: one is a parliamentary ally of Silvio Berlusconi, the centre-right opposition leader, and a personal friend of the pope.
Posture and pontificate as they might, Julia Gillard, the prime minister and Labor leader, and Tony Abbott, the right-wing coalition leader, were both rejected for being several hat-sizes too big.
However, if the forecasts are right Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat is set to become prime minister.
Support for the right-wing leader is believed to reflect Israeli frustration over the Middle East peace process.
And second, a sharp drop in support for the far right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and for a hotch-potch of extreme left and single-issue candidates has pulled French politics firmly back into the mainstream.
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You cannot be an effective leader subordinating right thinking to popular thinking.
During his oral arguments, the Chief Justice made it clear that the Pakistani constitution protects its citizens' right to life and that no political leader can consent to an abrogation of that right without due process.
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"In view of the fact that many of the proposals for Greece have not been implemented, the suggestion for more control and supervision goes in the right direction, " Norbert Barthle, a budget policy leader for the centre-right CDU party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told Reuters.
Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, was set to present a coalition government for parliament's approval, after securing an agreement with the Labour Party and its leader, Ehud Barak, as well as with parties on the nationalist and religious right.
He remains the most popular leader on the right, both among deputies and the French at large.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, is one of Israel's most popular and controversial politicians.
But government spokesman Ali Dabbagh criticized Levin's remarks, saying the Michigan Democrat had no right to criticize the Iraqi leader.
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Antonis Samaras, leader of the right-leaning New Democracy party, urged voters to swing behind his party at a rally in Athens on Thursday.
Right now we need a leader who understands that we must encourage entrepreneurs to start companies, and to invest in other ambitious entrepreneurs.
Mr Sharon went on to become leader of the right-wing Likud Party in opposition after Mr Netanyahu's decisive defeat in the 1999 general election.
And Mr Havel has little love for the leader of the right-wing opposition, Vaclav Klaus, a former prime minister who might get the job back again.
He is seen as a hawkish, right-of-centre leader whose previous term in office ended ignominiously amid falling popularity and a resignation on grounds of ill health.
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