Azouz Begag
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![Azouz Begag in 2007](/Images/godic/202412/23/Bayrou_Bercy_2007-04-18_n211445.jpg")
Azouz Begag, (Arabic:عزوز بقاق ) (born 5 November 1957 in Lyon, Rhône, France) is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) till 5 April 2007. He resigned to support the moderate centrist candidate François Bayrou, one of the two UMP ministers to do so.