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Times
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Like father, like son? French right seeks saviour in Louis Sarkozy
After years in the wilderness, the French centre-right believes it may have found a saviour in the form of a young anglophone liberal with intellectual aspirations and a high-powered wife. He also happens to have a familiar name. Louis Sarkozy is the son of Nicolas, France's strongman president between 2007 and 2012, whose shadow still hangs over the country's political class despite being convicted of corruption in two separate cases. Louis Sarkozy was mostly brought up in the US after Cécilia Attias, his mother, walked out of the Élysée Palace in 2007 and left the then head of state for a Franco-Moroccan PR specialist based in New York. He has returned to France with an ill-disguised ambition to play a prominent public role. Amid a
Local France
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Local France
Sarkozy's son signs up for French far-right magazine
The first contribution from Louis Sarkozy, 27, is set to appear in a relaunched edition of the magazine on Wednesday and will be devoted to "the values of the right". "He's ebullient, cultured, creative: it's the perfect combination for a column at the end of the magazine," director Tugdual Denis told AFP. Valeurs Actuelles, which is hoping to shed its association with the far-right, backed virulently anti-Islam politician Eric Zemmour in France's 2022 presidential election and regularly focuses on immigration and crime. Louis Sarkozy, born to Sarkozy's second wife Cecilia Attias, spent most of his childhood in the United States but has appeared on French television recently as a commentator on American politics. He raised eyebrows with a speech last month at a meeting in Paris of the youth wing of his father's Les Républicains party - and was invited to Donald Trump's inauguration as US president in Washington last week. Nicolas Sarkozy, who is now married to former supermodel Carla Bruni, remains mired in legal problems since his single 2007-2012 term in office. Already convicted in two cases, he is currently on trial over allegations he and his entourage conspired with late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to receive millions of euros in illegal campaign financing. Sarkozy's eldest son Pierre has become a DJ and hip hop producer, while his second son Jean briefly entered politics before becoming embroiled in a favouritism scandal.
