Nicolas Sarkozy | Wikipedia audio article
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Nicolas Sarkozy


00:02:04 1 Personal life
00:02:13 1.1 Family background
00:03:06 1.2 Early life
00:04:03 1.3 Education
00:05:21 1.4 Marriages
00:05:29 1.4.1 Marie-Dominique Culioli
00:06:24 1.4.2 Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz
00:07:44 1.4.3 Carla Bruni
00:08:19 1.5 Personal wealth
00:08:59 2 Early political career
00:10:23 2.1 In Government: 1993–1995
00:15:03 2.2 First term as Minister of the Interior: 2002–2004
00:16:19 2.3 Minister of Finance: 2004
00:17:51 2.4 Second term as Minister of the Interior: 2005–2007
00:19:09 2.5 UMP leader: 2004–2007
00:21:33 2.6 Presidential election: 2007
00:24:39 3 Presidency (2007–2012)
00:24:50 3.1 Inauguration
00:27:28 3.2 Release of hostages
00:28:55 3.3 Green policy
00:29:42 3.4 Economic policy
00:31:35 3.5 Security policy
00:32:19 3.6 Constitutional reform
00:33:15 3.7 International affairs
00:35:12 3.8 Military intervention in Libya
00:37:20 3.9 2012 presidential campaign
00:37:59 4 After his defeat
00:38:09 4.1 Temporary retirement: 2012–2014
00:38:38 4.2 Return to politics: 2014–2016
00:39:43 5 Public image
00:42:49 6 Controversies
00:43:14 6.1 Views on religions
00:44:22 6.2 Controversial statements
00:48:14 6.3 "Casse-toi, pauv'con"
00:49:47 6.4 Position on the Iraq war
00:50:36 6.5 Accusations of nepotism
00:51:08 6.6 Political and financial scandals
00:53:15 6.7 Alleged Libyan agent of influence
00:53:25 6.7.1 Background
00:54:05 6.7.2 Initial allegations
00:55:12 6.7.3 Inquiry and arrests
00:56:44 6.7.4 Police custody and indiction
00:57:09 7 Political career
01:00:23 8 Awards and honours
01:00:32 8.1 French Honours
01:00:56 8.2 Foreign Honours
01:01:50 8.3 Other Honours
01:02:13 9 Notes
01:02:22 10 Further reading
01:08:04 11 External links
01:08:14 11.1 Official websites
01:08:52 11.2 Press
01:10:05 11.3 Related contents



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Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa KOGF, GCB (; French: [nikɔla saʁkɔzi] (listen); born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.
Born in Paris, he is of 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish and 1/4 French Catholic origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–1995) during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007.
He won the French presidential election, 2007 by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin to Socialist Ségolène Royal. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (causing a recession and the European sovereign debt crisis) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He initiated the reform of French universities (2007) and the pension reform (2010). He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni in 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
In the 2012 election, François Hollande, candidate of the Socialist Party, defeated Sarkozy by a 3.2% margin. After leaving the presidential office, Sarkozy vowed to retire from public life before coming back in 2014, being subsequently reelected as UMP leader (renamed The Republicans in 2015). Being defeated at the Republican presidential primary in 2016, he retired from public life. He is currently charged with corruption by French prosecutors in two cases, notably concerning the alleged Libyan interference in the 2007 French elections.