http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/11/french-interior-minister-considers.php
"Sarkozy, the leader of the French conservative UMP party [party website], in an editorial [in French] in Paris' Le Figaro newspaper, called for legal equality among French citizens to be matched by real equality, and extolling the virtues of remedial 'discrimination positif' - affirmative action - which has to this point been firmly resisted by the French government and advisory groups such as the High Council on Integration "
Article, Le Figaro - http://www.u-m-p.org/site/actualite.php?IdActualite=888