11-05-2025
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.
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