The Australian: History of extramarital relationships by Sarkozy and wife forgotten as Sarkozy woos wife out of shadows - Matthew Campbell

Cecilia Sarkozy returns to husband and shaky marriage
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History of extramarital relationships by Sarkozy and wife forgotten as Sarkozy woos wife out of shadows - Matthew Campbell

In the final weeks of the French presidential election, centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is counting on his errant wife Cecilia to help win him power by boosting his appeal among young voters and women.

When Cecilia abandoned him with their son two years ago to live with Richard Attias, an events organiser, in New York. Author Valerie Domain said Cecilia complained to her of being made to feel like "a piece of furniture" in Mr Sarkozy's entourage. When she left, Mr Sarkozy began an affair with a political journalist, apparently to make Cecilia jealous. After their public reconciliation came another blazing row: Cecilia told Domain that she had seen a damaging dossier on the private life of her husband. She returned home again, however, at the end of last year, apparently determined to claim the prize of first lady that Mr Sarkozy had often promised her.

Sarkozy -- who has presented himself as a preacher of "family values" and militantly opposed gay marriage (which is favored in opinion polls by roughly two-thirds of the French) -- admitted that he and his wife have had unspecified "troubles," and asked for "respect of his private life." But, up until now, the French press (which has been extraordinarily sympathetic to the presumed future president) has been very chary about reporting on the Sarkozy couple's difficulties.

However, if, as Le Matin affirms, Sarkozy has engaged in multiple extra-marital affairs, this would certainly reveal as rather hypocritical the ambitious pol's family-values preachings.