Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy will be tried on corruption charges in the coming months.
The French Court of Appeals ruled that former President Sarkozy should be tried for corruption. He is charged with illegal payment from Liliane Bettencourt, known as L’Oreal’s heir, for Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign.
In France, for the first time in the history of the fifth republic, a president will face charges of corruption.
Nicholas Sarkozy Timeline
Former France President Nicholas Sarkozy was born on January 28, 1955 in Paris. His father, Pál Sárközy de Nagybocsa (Hungarian Nagybocsai Sárközy Pál) is Hungarian, and his mother’s father, Benico Mallah (originally known as Aron Mallah), originated in the Middle Ages from the Sephardic Jews who had taken refuge in Spain from the Ottoman Empire.
In the Government of Balladur, Édouard became Minister of Budget and spokesman of the government.
In the 1995 French presidential election he supported Édouard Balladur and became a campaign spokesman.
Sarkozy served as Minister of Interior and number two in the first government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2002-2004) and the Government of Dominique de Villepin (2005-2007). He was the Minister of Finance in the 3rd Jean-Pierre Raffarin Government. it was.
On May 16, 2007, Jacques Chirac was elected President of the Republic.
President Sarkozy married his third Italian model, Carla Bruni, on February 2, 2008.
Taken to Turkey’s European Union has clearly stated that the supporters.
The Law on Punishment of Denial of the Armenian Genocide passed by the Senate in 2012 was revoked by the French Constitutional Council.
Following the Socialist party candidate François Hollande, who won 28.63% of the 10 candidates in the first round of the presidential elections held on 21-22 April 2012, he reached the second round with 27.18%. As a result of the second round held on May 5-6, 2012, he lost the presidential elections to the candidate of Socialist Party François Hollande who won 51.9% of the votes.
Following the expiry of his term as President, he took office as a natural member of the Constitutional Council, but resigned due to irregularities in the 2012 presidential election campaign. On 29 November 2014, he was elected Chairman of the UMP.
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