![]() ![]() Sarkozy appears to have learned from the early mistakes of his presidency, when his public good-living and taste for public consumption earned him the nickname ‘President Bling-Bling’.įirst Lady Carla-Bruni Sarkozy has already instructed her lawyers to send pre-emptive missives to the French media reminding them of the exceptionally stringent privacy laws obtaining in the country That Sarkozy will not have chosen to insert himself into this vortex of sexual politics does not diminish the extent to which his management of the Eurozone crisis is now being scrutinised alongside his management of family obligations. On the other extreme, voices in the Socialist Party have used their recent primary election to canvass the notion of fully five years of paternity leave. Though latterly cast into the political wilderness, Dati caused consternation and admiration in equal measure when two years ago she returned to her office five days after giving birth, declining all the while to name the father. Memories in France are still fresh of the pregnancy of one of Sarkozy’s former ministers, Rachida Dati. ![]() The fact that one of his visits to his wife’s bedside on the day of the birth lasting a bare twenty minutes has however naturally sparked a certain amount of uncharitable commentary. Rachida Dati, France's Justice Minister and Sarkozy's former mistress, returned to work a mere 5 days after giving birth The rather more vexed question for President Sarkozy is striking a balance between family and political duties of which his disenchanted electorate might approve.Īllies say that there is no question of him taking paternity leave, despite the inconvenient coincidence that his party is in the process of legislating for new rights in precisely that respect. Indeed, the new mother has already instructed her lawyers to send pre-emptive missives to the French media reminding them of the exceptionally stringent privacy laws obtaining in the country. There will be no photoshoot with the new child. No surprise then that his office has been studiously silence on the matter, limiting itself instead to unattributable briefings. ![]() Word has even filtered out that Carla Sarkozy-Bruni, the actress turned musician-cum-humanitarian whom Nicholas Sarkozy married shortly after being elected, has been passing the time by watching a TV series on the Borgias.įor the President, this is all dangerous territory.Īlready the first president of the Fifth Republic to have been both divorced and married while in office, he is now also the first to become a father while occupying the Elysee Palace. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni who gave birth to the first child ever to have been born to an active French President ![]()
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