Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy | |
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23rd President of France From: May 16, 2007 | |
Vice President | François Fillon |
Predecessor | Jacques Chirac |
Successor | Incumbent (no successor) |
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Party | Union for a Popular Movement |
Spouse(s) | Carla Bruni-Sarkozy |
Religion | Catholic |
Nicolas Sarkozy (born in 1955) is a French right-winged politician, who was elected President of France on May 6, 2007. He is a strong admirer of the United States[1]. Sarkozy has been the target of vicious leftist attacks since winning the French presidency.[2]
Sarkozy was born in Paris in 1955 to a French mother of Greek Jewish origin (the daughter of a Greek immigrant born to the Mallah family, one of the oldest Jewish families of Salonika, Greece [3]) and a Hungarian father (real name: Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa) who had escaped Communism. Sarkozy attended law school at the University of Paris, and also studied at the Institute of Political Studies. In 1983, at the age of 28, he became mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a major suburb of Paris. He was elected to the French National Assembly in 1988 and named minister in 1993. From 2002 to 2007 he served as interior minister and budget minister during which time he burnished his reputation as a tough-on-crime and straightforward politician. On January 14, 2007, he was chosen by the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), France's main conservative party, as its candidate for president.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is unpopular because of government corruption, because the French economy is weaker than it was supposed to be, because he and his now former foreign minister chose the wrong side in Tunisia, and because he’s erratic and unpredictable. [4]
Divorced twice, Sarkozy is father to three sons, Pierre and Jean from his first marriage and Louis from his second.[5] He was married for a third time on February 2, 2008, to model and singer Carla Bruni.[6]
Sarkozy also has engendered much controversy in France with his advocacy of economic reforms, immigration controls, a youth employment law that the government was compelled to repeal by widespread protests,[7] and his notorious comment that his intention was to "wash away the scum", when referring to the 2005 Paris Riots.[8]
Zionist ancestry
"Sarkozy’s grandfather, Aron Mallah, nicknamed Benkio, was born in 1890. Beniko’s uncle Moshe was a well-known Rabbi and a devoted Zionist who, in 1898 published and edited "El Avenir", the leading paper of the Zionist national movement in Greece at the time. His cousin, Asher, was a Senator in the Greek Senate and in 1912 he helped guarantee the establishment of the Technion – the elite technological university in Haifa, Israel. In 1919 he was elected as the first President of the Zionist Federation of Greece and he headed the Zionist Council for several years." [9]
Libyan affair
Bernard Henri Levy, a friend of Sarkozy since 1983 but with an extremely complicated relationship, is the man who, some consider, waged a war in Libya. Lévy, 62 (born in Algeria in 1948, to a wealthy Sephardi Jewish family), a Zionist French philosopher is the man behind the French and American War on Libya... After persuading Sarkozy, Mr. Lévy, gives Mr. Sarkozy sole credit for persuading London, Washington and others to support intervention in Libya. [10]
Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy for crimes against humanity over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya... Dumas, a former French minister, said "the NATO mission, which was meant to protect civilians, was in fact killing them." [11]
See Also
External links
- A Greek book on Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Profile: Nicolas Sarkozy.
- France’s goals in Libya hit a little closer to home. by Anne Applebaum.
References
- ↑ "Sarkozy vs. Royal", The Washington Times Online
- ↑ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/le-pen-brands-sarkozy-as-scum/story-e6frg6so-1111113355628
- ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy’s Jewish Heritage.
- ↑ France’s goals in Libya hit a little closer to home.
- ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy's Biography
- ↑ Elaine Sciolino, "French president and ex-model wed, quietly," International Herald Tribune 3 Feb. 2008.
- ↑ "France - The News From France", About.com
- ↑ "Troubled Suburbs Rally to Stop Sarkozy", The Guardian Online
- ↑ Ibidem
- ↑ B.H. Levy: the man who waged a War in Libya.
- ↑ French lawyers plan Libya lawsuit against Sarkozy.