Nicolas Sarkozy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nicolas Sarkozy

23rd President of the French Republic

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1955

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Profession: lawyer, politician, economist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Nicolas Sarkozy

  • Nicolas Paul StĂ©phane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; French: [nik?la sa?k?zi] (listen); born 28 January 1955) is a retired 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 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin to Socialist SĂ©golène Royal.
  • During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (causing a recession, the European sovereign debt crisis), the Russo-Georgian War (for which he negotiated a ceasefire) 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 ÉlysĂ©e 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.

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