Nicolas Sarkozy (French: [ni.k?.la sa?.k?.zi] (13px listen); born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the 23rd President of France from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.Before his presidency, he was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007).Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France, from 1983 to 2002. He was Minister of the Budget in the government of Édouard Balladur (RPR, predecessor of the UMP) during François Mitterrand's last term.In foreign affairs, he promised a strengthening of the entente cordiale with the United Kingdom and closer cooperation with the United States. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (followed by the recession and the debt crisis caused by it) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.On 6 May 2012, Sarkozy was defeated in the 2012 election by Socialist François Hollande by a margin of 3.2 percentage points, or 1,139,983 votes. After leaving the office, Sarkozy retired from political life. As a former president, Sarkozy is entitled to ex officio membership in the Constitutional Council.On 2 July 2014, Sarkozy was criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors.
Andrée Mallah, Paul Sarkozy, Paul Sarkozy, Christine de Ganay
Siblings
Olivier Sarkozy, Guillaume Sarkozy, Caroline Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, François Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, Nicolas Sarkozy, Guillaume Sarkozy, François Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, Caroline Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa
Nicknames
Sarko, Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, The Bling Bling President, Speedy, Hyperpresident, Sarko l'Américain
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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The French army is not in Afghanistan so that Afghan soldiers can shoot at them.
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My father came from Hungary after the tragedy of Yalta, and my mother's father was a Jew from Salonika . . . we loved France. We didn't take it for granted.
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Fact
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Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, became parents of their first child, together, with the birth of a baby girl, Giulia on October 19, 2011.
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Co-Prince of the Principality of Andorra since 16 May 2007.
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Only his maternal grandmother was of French descent, and his wife, Carla Bruni, is of French descent through three of her own maternal great-grandparents.
Married Carla Bruni at the Elysée Palace in the presence of close family and friends, making her the second First Lady of France during his presidency (2 February 2008).
Has two nieces and one nephew by brother François: one from his first marriage, Katinka Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 1991) and two from his second marriage to Sophie Garaudet Douzal, Arpad Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 2002) and Anastasia Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 2003).
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Former stepson of Mabel Ilona Michelina Véronique d' Eliassy (born on 16 April 1942 in Budapest, died on 15 December 2004 in Madrid).
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Has two uncles, Györgi Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa and Gedeon Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa.
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Officially confirmed his relationship to Carla Bruni and that he intended to marry her (8 January 2008).
Has two brothers, Guillaume Georges Didier Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in Paris 18 June 1951, unmarried and without issue) and François Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in Paris 3 June 1958), who is a Medicine Doctor, and with issue from both marriages), and two younger half-siblings by his second stepmother Christine Marie Irène de Ganay, Caroline Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (married to François Roger Conrad Fournier, born in Hauts-de-Seine 11 Apr 1950), and Pierre Olivier Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, unmarried and without issue.
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Was elected President of France, the sixth in the Fifth Republic, in the second round of the 2007 election by 53.06% of the votes (6 May 2007).
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Minister of the Interior from 7 May 2002 to 31 March 2004 and from 31 May 2005 to 26 March 2007.
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Has three sons: Pierre Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 1985) and Jean Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 1987) with his first wife Marie-Dominique Culioli, Louis Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in 1997) with his second wife Cecilia Albeniz.
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Head of the French conservative party UMP and the winner of the 2007 presidential elections.
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His father, Pál István Ernö Sárközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born in Budapest on May 5, 1928), is a Hungarian-born lawyer from the Hungarian nobility, who immigrated to France after the Communist occupation of Hungary in WWII. His mother, Andrée Jeanne Mallah (born in Paris on October 12, 1925), was of Greek descent on her own father's side, and of French descent on her own mother's side. They married in Paris on February 8, 1950.
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In April 2004, he became Minister of Economy and Finances
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