page_title: Carla Bruni
section_title: Political views
hierarchical_section_title: Carla Bruni / Personal life / Political views
caption_attribution_description: 2012 inauguration ceremony of the President of France, Élysée Palace, Paris Carla Bruni-Sarkozy et Nicolas Sarkozy quittant le palais de l'Élysée
context_page_description: Carla Bruni Sarkozy is an Italian-French singer-songwriter and former supermodel. In 2008, she married Nicolas Sarkozy, then president of France and ex-officio co-prince of Andorra.
  Bruni was born in Italy and moved to France at the age of seven. She was a model from 1987 to 1997 before taking up a career in music. She wrote several songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j'étais elle. Bruni released her first album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2002, which eventually spent thirty-four weeks in the top 10 of the French Albums Chart. Bruni won the Victoire Award for Female Artist of the Year at the 2004 Victoires de la Musique. The same year, Bruni released her second album, No Promises, then the following year she released her third album, Comme si de rien n'était. In 2013, Bruni released her fourth album, Little French Songs. In 2017, Bruni released her fifth album, French Touch. She has sold 5 million albums during her career.
  Committed to social issues, in 2009 she created the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation to promote access to culture and knowledge for all.
context_section_description: Bruni's political views have been inconsistent over the years though she defines herself as a left-winger. She has defended Nicolas Sarkozy and the UMP numerous times since becoming the First Lady of France and leaving the office.
  During the 2007 French Presidential Election, Bruni stated that she would have voted for Ségolène Royal who was running against her future husband, Nicholas Sarkozy. Bruni said her lack of French Citizenship disallowed her from voting but she would have voted left wing due to it being family tradition. In an October 2011 interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Herald, Bruni said "My family have always voted to the left. It's tradition. I'll never vote right wing."
  In an interview with Le Point, Bruni said, when asked about her political leanings, "I am left wing, but I'm not against my husband or his party. I am not an activist." In a May 2011 interview with Le Parisien, Bruni said she no longer felt left wing and identified as an ultra-Sarkozyist.
  Bruni does not identify as a feminist, telling Vogue Magazine, "My generation doesn't need feminism...I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois."
  She is not opposed to same-sex marriage and in favor of adoption.
caption: Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni leaving the Elysee Palace, 15 May 2012
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