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Ex-prime minister Villepin to back Macron in French presidential vote

PARIS, Apr 20 (Reuters) Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a conservative Gaullist who won global celebrity by opposing US plans for war in Iraq, said today he would back centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's presidential election.
"There is a new path, which Emmanuel Macron wants to open, and that is to unite," Villepin told Le Parisien newspaper.
He said in the face of the traditional left-right party system that was imprisoned by its own divisions and extremes that were determined to flip the table over the choice of Macron was obvious.
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