Dans le bras de fer opposant le ministre des Finances à celui de la Défense, le Premier ministre a arbitré en faveur de Nicolas Sarkozy. In Hungarian the given name comes last rather than first. [133] This policy has been criticized for example by the US newspaper The New York Times,[133] by Sarkozy's political opponents, including the Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry,[134] and by experts of French law, including the ex-member of the Constitutional Council of France, Robert Badinter, who said that such action would be unconstitutional. This westernization of Hungarian names is frequent, particularly for people with an aristocratic name. Le 10 mai 2012, à la suite de la défaite électorale du président Nicolas Sarkozy lors de l'élection présidentielle de 2012, François Fillon a présenté la démission du Gouvernement [12].Le Président de la République a donc mis fin à ses fonctions de Premier ministre (Constitution française du 4 octobre 1958, art. He served from 1983 to 2002. [165], On 23 November 2020, the trial of Nicolas Sarkozy started who is accused of corruption and influence peddling, for an attempted bribery of a judge. Un tiers des ministres de ce gouvernement sont cependant d'anciens membres du gouvernement de Dominique de Villepin et deux tiers sont d'anciens membres des gouvernements du second mandat de Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy broke with the custom of amnestying traffic tickets and of releasing thousands of prisoners from overcrowded jails on Bastille Day, a tradition that Napoleon had started in 1802 to commemorate the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. Roselyne Bachelot , 60 ans, a été nommée ministre de la Santé, Jeunesse et Sports. Deputy general secretary of the Rally for the Republic: 1992–1993. Au cours de la constitution du gouvernement, elle a incarné à elle-seule « l’ouverture » aux chiraquiens. [149], On 5 July 2010, following its investigations on the Bettencourt affair, online newspaper Mediapart ran an article in which Claire Thibout, a former accountant of billionairess Liliane Bettencourt, accused Sarkozy and Eric Woerth of receiving illegal campaign donations in 2007, in cash. Christine Boutin : Ministre du logement et de la ville. [67], Sarkozy wielded special international power when France held the rotating EU Council Presidency from July 2008 through December 2008. [43], On 21 March, President Jacques Chirac announced his support for Sarkozy. Sarkozy declared to the Constitutional Council a net worth of €2 million, most of the assets being in the form of life insurance policies. "You're making me dirty", yelled the man. [6] "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood", he said later.[6]. [125], A few weeks before the first round of the 2007 presidential elections, Sarkozy had an interview with philosopher Michel Onfray. Nicolas Sarkozy a été élu président de la République en 2007, pour un mandat de 5 ans. Ministre des Affaires étrangères. Principaux ministres sous la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy. Le 23 mai, le premier ministre a participé au grand meeting de l'UMP à Marseille. [27] His supporters within France emphasize his charisma, political innovation and willingness to "make a dramatic break" amid mounting disaffection against "politics as usual". [58], The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Sarkozy's party, won a majority at the June 2007 legislative election, although by less than expected. Outre Jean-Louis Borloo, la secrétaire d'État aux Sports Rama Yade, la secrétaire d'État à la Politique de la Ville Fadela Amara, le ministre du Travail Éric Woerth et le ministre de la Défense Hervé Morin sont les principaux partants du gouvernement. Les dates indiquées sont les dates de prise ou de cessation des fonctions, qui sont en général la veille de la date de publication du décret de nomination au Journal officiel.. The president retorted immediately: "Get lost, then." [138][139][140], On 28 August 2008, Hervé Eon, from Laval came to an anti-Sarkozy demonstration with a sign bearing the words Casse-toi pov' con, the exact words Sarkozy had uttered. He was criticised by the European Commission for doing so. [111] Indeed, he appointed a very close friend of his, François Fillon, as a Prime Minister. ». In 1995, he spurned Chirac and backed Édouard Balladur for President of France. "[104] Sarkozy is reported by Reuters to be sensitive about his height (believed to be 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)). His last day as President of the French Republic was 15 May. [156][157] Nevertheless, he later stood as a candidate for the Republican party nomination,[158] but was eliminated from the contest in November 2016. He said that, to France, Canada was a friend, and Quebec was family. [28] He was the youngest mayor of any town in France with a population of over 50,000. His family then sent him to the Cours Saint-Louis de Monceau, a private Catholic school in the 17th arrondissement, where he was reportedly a mediocre student,[6] but where he nonetheless obtained his baccalauréat in 1973. [73] The plan, which was jointly proposed by Sarkozy and Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak envisions the continuation of the delivery of aid to Gaza and talks with Israel on border security, a key issue for Israel as it says Hamas smuggles its rockets into Gaza through the Egyptian border. The family lived in a mansion owned by Sarkozy's maternal grandfather, Benedict Mallah, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. in private law and, later, with a D.E.A. Sarkozy lost the RPR leadership. The first two budgets he submitted to the parliament (budgets for FY1994 and FY1995) assumed a yearly budget deficit equivalent to six percent of GDP. [18] In the meantime, he was said to have had an affair with a journalist of Le Figaro, Anne Fulda. He has claimed that these reforms strengthen parliament, while some opposition socialist lawmakers have described it as a "consolidation of a monocracy". [107], Sarkozy was nicknamed as Hyper-president or hyperpresident by some French media[108] after his 2007 election as president. [47] In the afternoon, the new president flew to Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. [54] The leader of the PS, François Hollande, requested the opening of a parliamentary investigation. Sarkozy was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by President Chirac in February 2005. Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (/sɑːrˈkoʊzi/; French: [nikɔla pɔl stefan saʁkɔzi də naʒi bɔksa] (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. 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The Government has also made changes to long-standing French work-hour regulations, allowing employers to negotiate overtime with employees and making all hours worked past the traditional French 35-hour week tax-free. Between 2002 and 2005, the couple often appeared together on public occasions, with Cécilia Sarkozy acting as the chief aide for her husband. Sarkozy came in first with 31.18 percent of the votes, ahead of Ségolène Royal of the Socialists with 25.87 percent. [155] The developments were seen as a blow to Sarkozy's attempts to challenge for the presidency in 2017. "[145] He added: "We must never again turn our disagreements into a crisis." [86] Led by Sarkozy, UMP won over two-thirds of the 102 local departements in the nationwide elections on 29 March 2015. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine: 1983–2002 (resignation). On 10 March 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed to the Elysee Palace, three emissaries from the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC), brought to him by Bernard-Henri Levy who mediated at the meeting. I'd be inclined to think that one is born a paedophile, and it is actually a problem that we do not know how to cure this disease"; he claimed that suicides among youth were linked to genetic predispositions by stating, "I don't want to give parents a complex. This was the subject of a political row: the president's office called the accusation "completely absurd and grotesque", while the Socialist Party mocked his fastidious preparation. Sarkozy was accused of having provoked the unrest by calling young delinquents from housing projects a "rabble" ("racaille") in Argenteuil near Paris, and controversially suggested cleansing the minority suburbs with a Kärcher. Minister of Budget and government's spokesman: 1993–1995. Sarkozy's political career began when he was 23, when he became a city councillor in Neuilly-sur-Seine. [118] He has opposed financing of religious institutions with funds from outside France. Il est d'usage en France de nommer le gouvernement par le nom du Premier ministre. La part de femmes membres du gouvernement est d'environ 33 %. [note 2] According to the Maastricht Treaty, the French yearly budget deficit may not exceed three percent of France's GDP. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. He decided to endorse Fillon and to retire from politics. [63], Sarkozy's government issued a decree on 7 August 2007 to generalise a voluntary biometric profiling program of travellers in airports. Seules les priorités clairement identifiées par le président de la République sont dispensées de se mettre au régime pour redresser les finances publiques. 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[70][71] A more senior RPR councillor, Charles Pasqua, wanted to become mayor, and asked Sarkozy to organize his campaign. [55], On 8 June 2007, during the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Sarkozy set a goal of reducing French CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2050 in order to prevent global warming. L’ancien ministre la Défense et de l’Intérieur rend responsable la France de Nicolas Sarkozy du désordre en Libye et des conséquences sur l’immigration en Europe. These calls culminated in an interview with Le Monde on 8 September 2005, during which he claimed that the French had been misled for 30 years by false promises. Il sera à l'Intérieur, chargé des législatives. Communiqué de la Présidence de la République concernant la composition du gouvernement de M. François FILLON, Premier ministre. Ce dernier le charge de recréer un gouvernement dont il sera à la tête. "[129], On 27 July 2007, Sarkozy delivered a speech in Dakar, Senegal, written by Henri Guaino, in which he claimed that "the African has never really entered into history". Le 18 juin 2007, lendemain du second tour des élections législatives et conformément à l'usage constant sous la Cinquième République, François Fillon présente la démission du gouvernement au président de la République, qui l'appelle immédiatement à former un nouveau gouvernement[13]. He initiated the reform of French universities (2007) and the pension reform (2010). In addition to Kouchner, three more Sarkozy ministers are from the left, including Éric Besson, who served as Ségolène Royal's economic adviser at the beginning of her campaign. These actions of Nicolas Sarkozy were favorably received by the majority of the French political class and public opinion. In 1988, he became a deputy in the National Assembly. During his tenure, he increased France's public debt more than any other French Budget Minister, by the equivalent of €200 billion (US$260 billion) (FY 1994–1996). Similarly, he drew criticism from Christians after he called Islam "one of the greatest and most beautiful civilizations the world has known" at a speech in Riyadh in January 2008. [98] Beside publicising, at times, and at others, refusing to publicise his ex-wife Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz's image,[99] Sarkozy takes care of his own personal image, sometimes to the point of censorship—such as in the Paris Match affair, when he allegedly forced its director to resign following an article on his ex-wife and her affair with Publicis executive Richard Attias, or pressures exercised on the Journal du dimanche, which was preparing to publish an article concerning Ciganer-Albéniz's decision not to vote in the second round of the 2007 presidential election. [141][142] The court eventually imposed a symbolic €30 suspended fine, which has generally been interpreted as a defeat for the prosecution side. Instead Sarkozy took that opportunity to propel himself into the office of mayor. Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin : Ministre de la santé, de la jeunesse et des sports. These statements were criticised by some scientists, including geneticist Axel Kahn. The official transfer of power from Chirac to Sarkozy took place on 16 May at 11:00 am (9:00 UTC) at the Élysée Palace, where he was given the authorization codes of the French nuclear arsenal. He was re-elected on 13 March 2005 to the National Assembly. Minister of State, minister of Economy, Finance and Industry: March–November 2004 (resignation). Il fait face à la justice mardi pour des soupçons de financement occulte de … (This story was corroborated by some trade union officials.) Nicolas Sarkozy a, durant sa campagne, annoncé sa volonté d'inscrire son gouvernement dans une démarche d' « ouverture [2] » vers d'autres partis, notamment ceux du centre ou de la gauche. ("When will you rid us of these dregs? (hors Ministres délégués et Secrétaires d'Etat) ... Ministre de la Défense. The French aristocratic particle "de" is also used instead of the Hungarian aristocratic ending "-i". [21] They married on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. 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He abandoned his private equity plans when he decided to make a political comeback in 2014. [105] The French media have pointed out that Carla Bruni frequently wears flats when in public with him. Il n'y a eu aucun remaniement depuis ; c'est toujours la composition de l'actuel gouvernement. Le gouvernement de François Fillon est remanié par Nicolas Sarkozy le 14 novembre 2010. [173], On 20 and 21 March 2018, Sarkozy was put into police custody and held for questioning concerning the Libyan connection. [169][171] French magistrates later acquired diaries of former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem in which payments to Sarkozy were mentioned. [87] On 13 December, the Republicans won the majority of regional office races, another set of national elections. (As required by the constitution, he had to resign as a deputy when he became minister in 2002.) 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[50], In the 2007 and 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy,[51] Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Quebec Premier Jean Charest[52] all spoke in favour of a Canada – EU free trade agreement. Minister of State, minister of Interior and Land Planning: 2005–2007 (resignation). The family later moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of the Île-de-France région immediately west of Paris. On 19 March 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced the beginning of a military intervention in Libya, with France's participation. La nomination de membres de l'opposition au sein de ce gouvernement a suscité diverses réactions. [42], In February 2007, Sarkozy appeared on a televised debate on TF1 where he expressed his support for affirmative action and the freedom to work overtime. Outre Jean-Louis Borloo, la secrétaire d'État aux Sports Rama Yade, la secrétaire d'État à la Politique de la Ville Fadela Amara, le ministre du Travail Éric Woerth et le ministre de la Défense Hervé Morin sont les principaux partants du gouvernement. [167] The visit marked the first time Gaddafi had been to France in more than 35 years and, during it, France agreed to sell Libya 21 Airbus aircraft and signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. Overall, he is considered more pro-American and pro-Israeli than most French politicians. [123], In September 2005 Sarkozy was accused of pushing for a hasty inquiry into an arson attack on a police station in Pau, of which the alleged perpetrators were acquitted for lack of proof. Benoit Van Overstraeten and Maya Nikolaeva (27 February 2020). [101][102][103] His official portrait destined for all French town halls was done by Sipa Press photographer Philippe Warrin, better known for his paparazzi work. [note 3], On 7 February, Sarkozy decided in favour of a projected second, non-nuclear, aircraft carrier for the national Navy (adding to the nuclear Charles de Gaulle), during an official visit in Toulon with Defence Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie. La composition suivante est celle annoncée par Claude Guéant le 23 juin 2009. Since his party was divided on the issue, Sarkozy stepped in and organised meetings between various parties involved. [40], On 14 January 2007, Sarkozy was chosen by the UMP to be its candidate in the 2007 presidential election. Member of the European Parliament: July–September 1999 (resignation). Hervé Morin : Ministre de la défense. In party elections of 10 November 2004, Sarkozy became leader of the UMP with 85% of the vote. He also promised them French military assistance. The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) protested against this new decree, opposing itself to the recording of fingerprints and to the interconnection between the SIS and the FPR. The program, called 'Parafes', was to use fingerprints. Sarkozy's best man was the prominent right-wing politician Charles Pasqua, later to become a political opponent. The first round of the presidential election was held on 22 April 2007. Il a rappelé son attachement au suffrage universel et a annoncé que tous les membres de son gouvernement sont candidats aux législatives : « Quand on est battu, ça veut dire qu'on n'a pas le soutien du peuple et qu'on ne peut pas rester au gouvernement (...) Ma place sera celle de l'animateur de la majorité et du projet politique du gouvernement. Perhaps." 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[56] Critics alleged that Sarkozy proposed to nominate Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the IMF to deprive the Socialist Party of one of its more popular figures. E xit MAM et Hortefeux, place à Claude Guéant et Gérard Longuet.Fait inhabituel, c'est Nicolas Sarkozy en personne qui a annoncé les principaux changements au gouvernement. Nicolas Sarkozy : Président de la République Française depuis le 16 mai 2007 Brice Hortefeux : ministre de l'immigration, de l'intégration, de l'identité nationale et du codéveloppement Hervé Morin : ministre de la Défense du gouvernement Fillon Roselyne Bachelot : ministre de la Santé, de la Jeunesse et des Sports du gouvernement Fillon Sarkozy was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by President Chirac in February 2005. [19], Sarkozy and Cécilia ultimately divorced on 15 October 2007, soon after his election as president. [57], In 2010, a study of Yale and Columbia universities ranked France the most respectful country of the G20 concerning the environment. He previously also held several ministerial posts, including Finance Minister. [6], After passing the bar, Sarkozy became a lawyer specializing in business and family law[6] and was one of Silvio Berlusconi's French lawyers.[9][10][11]. He advocated reducing the separation of church and state, arguing for the government subsidies for mosques to encourage Islamic integration into French society. [96] However, Sarkozy has also been named as the third worst-dressed person in the world by GQ,[97] a listing that has been disputed. His period as Interior Minister saw the use of police as shock troops in the "banlieues", and a police "raid" on the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in October 2005 led to two boys being electrocuted in a power sub-station. [116], In 2004 Sarkozy co-authored a book, La République, les religions, l'espérance (The Republic, Religions, and Hope),[117] in which he argued that the young should not be brought up solely on secular or republican values. He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin against Socialist Ségolène Royal. They would introduce a two-term limit for the presidency, and end the president's right of collective pardon. "[note 4], A precise translation into English has many possible variations. Nom. During his short appointment as Minister of Finance, Sarkozy was responsible for introducing a number of policies. [120], In the midst of a tense period and following the death of an 11-year-old boy, caught in the crossfire of a gang brawl in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve in June 2005, Sarkozy went to the scene and said: "on va nettoyer au Kärcher la cité"" ("we will clean the area with a pressure washer"). La décision de Nicolas Sarkozy, président de la République, de nommer François Fillon premier ministre a été annoncée le jeudi 17 mai 2007 (communiqué de l'Élysée publié à 9 h 50[8]). [citation needed] Some compared Nicolas Sarkozy to Napoléon Bonaparte and Louis XIV. Before he was elected President of France, Sarkozy was president of UMP, the French conservative party, elected with 85 percent of the vote. However, his popularity was sufficient to see him polling as the frontrunner throughout the later campaign period, consistently ahead of rival Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal. Le sourire se crispe. «Ah non, touche-moi pas», prévient-il. Les quatre secrétaires d'État et le haut-commissaire sont des hommes. Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (21 February 2017), BBC News, 13 December 2015 "French Far Right National Front 'Routed' in Key Vote". Après la nomination de François Fillon comme premier ministre jeudi, le premier gouvernement de l'ère Sarkozy avec 15 ministres et 4 secrétaires d'Etat a été dévoilé ce matin. With a frozen smile, Sarkozy says, his teeth glistening, a refined "Get lost, then, poor dumb-ass, go.