Editing Nicolas Sarkozy (section)

==Biography==
Born in Paris, he is of 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and 1/4 French Catholic origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur  during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007.

He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin to Socialist Ségolène Royal. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (causing a recession, the European sovereign debt crisis), the Russo-Georgian War (for which he negotiated a ceasefire) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He initiated the reform of French universities (2007) and the pension reform (2010). He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni in 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

In the 2012 election, François Hollande, candidate of the Socialist Party, defeated Sarkozy by a 3.2% margin. After leaving the presidential office, Sarkozy vowed to retire from public life before coming back in 2014, being subsequently reelected as UMP leader (renamed The Republicans in 2015). Being defeated at the Republican presidential primary in 2016, he retired from public life. He has been charged with corruption by French prosecutors in two cases, notably concerning the alleged Libyan interference in the 2007 French elections.

On 1 March 2021, Sarkozy was convicted of corruption and influence peddling for unethically attempting to gain information from a magistrate in 2014. Sarkozy was sentenced to one year in prison and two years suspended. He is also to be charged with illegally financing his 2012 presidential campaign.

[[Category:European Villains]]
[[Category:Political]]
[[Category:Corrupt Officials]]
[[Category:Presidents]]
[[Category:Living Villains]]
[[Category:Wealthy]]
[[Category:Grey Zone]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:On & Off Villains]]
[[Category:Elderly]]
[[Category:Anti - Villain]]
[[Category:Xenophobes]]
[[Category:Arrogant]]
[[Category:Vocal Villains]]
[[Category:Hypocrites]]
[[Category:Greedy]]
[[Category:Power Hungry]]
[[Category:Embezzlers]]
[[Category:Conspirators]]
[[Category:Weapon Dealer]]
[[Category:Tricksters]]
[[Category:Con Artists]]
[[Category:Adulterers]]
[[Category:Control Freaks]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Imprisoned]]