Sarkozy

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President of France



Born: 28 January 1955

Birthplace: Paris, France

Best known as: President of France, 2007-

Name at birth: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárkozy de Nagy-Bocsa

Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France in 2007, taking office on 16 May 2007. Sarkozy heads the Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire ("Union for a Popular Movement," or UMP) and is known as a high-energy, blunt-talking conservative whose favorite issues include immigration reform, jobs, law and order, and French national identity. Sarkozy was only 28 when he became mayor of the well-to-do suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1983; he won national acclaim in 1993 after schoolchildren in Neuilly were taken hostage by a man calling himself the Human Bomb, and Sarkozy negotiated directly with the man for their release. In 2002 he was installed as France's minister of the interior, and became known for his hard-line approach to crime among inner-city youth. He was made finance minister in 2004, and the same year took over leadership of the UMP, the party of then-President Jacques Chirac. He succeeded Chirac in 2007, defeating Socialist candidate Ségolene Royal in national elections to win a six-year term as president.

Extra credit: Sarkozy's name is pronounced SAR-ko-zee... His nickname is "Sarko"... The name of the "Human Bomb" kidnapper was Eric Schmitt; he was killed in a police raid that ended the incident... As a conservative, Sarkozy has sometimes been compared with ultra-rightist French politician Jean Marie Le Pen... Sarkozy has been married thrice: to the former Marie-Dominique Culioli from 1982-96, to model Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz from 1996 to 2007 (the couple were divorced five months after Sarkozy took office as president), and to model Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008.

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