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2007-05-07 Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said: "It is with personal pleasure that I offer you my warmest congratulations on your brilliant election... which shows unmistakably the trust in your social project."
2007-05-07 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said the French people had "chosen in you a man of heart and of action."
2007-05-07 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his victory and his "firm resolve" to further improve ties with France, currently the fourth-largest investor in the South American country.
2007-05-07 "My country, my government and myself, personally, continue to consider France as a key ally and you, personally, as a friend."
Italian centre-left Prime Minister Romano Prodi saying Nicolas Sarkozy had won a "handsome victory",
2007-05-07 "This clear victory by Nicolas Sarkozy demonstrates the desire for change that is present across Europe and not only in France."
(Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi)
2007-05-07 Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged a "rapid clarification" of Nicolas Sarkozy's position on a proposed EU constitution which was rejected by French voters in a referendum in 2005.
2007-05-07 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed hope that he and Nicolas Sarkozy could work together towards peace in the Middle East.
2007-05-07 Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende praised the French people for choosing "change and modernisation" in his comments on Nicolas Sarkozy winning the election.
2007-05-07 "France is an important partner for us and things have come a long way since the times of nuclear testing and the Rainbow Warrior". (New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark told Television New Zealand)
2007-05-07 Nicolas Sarkozy represents an open and modern right" that would help France "recover its self-assurance and keep being a part of the European locomotive in the 21st century"
(Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)