Nicolas Sarkozy (lahir di Paris, Perancis, 28 Januari 1955; umur 60 tahun terlahir dengan nama Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárközy de Nagy-Bocsa) adalah Presiden Republik Perancis ke-23, yang terpilih pada 6 Mei 2007 setelah keunggulan Partai Sosialis atas Ségolène Royal dalam babak kedua pemilu 2007. Sebelum menjadi presiden, ia adalah ketua partai Uni Pergerakan Populer (UMP) wing kanan. Di bawah pemerintahan Jacques Chirac, ia menjabat Menteri Urusan Dalam Negeri dalam kabinet Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP) yang kedua kali masa pemerintahan (Mei 2002-Maret 2004). Ia juga menjabat Menteri Keuangan dalam pemerintahan Raffarin (Maret 2004-Mei 2005) dan kembali menjabat Menteri Urusan Dalam Negeri dalam pemerintahan Dominique de Villepin(2005-2007). Sarkozy juga presiden Dewan Jenderal departemen Hauts-de-Seine pada periode 2004-2007 dan Walikota Neuilly-sur-Seine,Ia adalah anak kedua dari Paul Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, seorang Hongaria, dan Andrée Mallah, seorang perempuan Perancis. Nicolas seringkali dijuluki Sarko. Sejak 2007, ia menjadi pemimpin partai sayap kanan UGR. Pada 14 Januari 2007, ia terpilih sebagai kandidat presiden dalam pemilu presiden 2007 dari partai Uni Pergerakan Popular (UMP) yang konservatif. Mayoritas responden mengatakan bahwa dirinya memiliki kemampuan untuk menjadi presiden meskipun 51% menyatakan kekhawatiran. Ia terpilih menjadi Presiden Perancis pada tanggal 6 Mei 2007.
Nicolas Sarkozy born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955 is a French politician who served as the President of France and Co-prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012. Before his presidency, he was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007). Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France, from 1983 to 2002. He was Minister of the Budget in the government of Édouard Balladur (RPR, predecessor of the UMP) during François Mitterrand's last term.
In foreign affairs, Sarkozy promised a strengthening of the entente cordiale with the United Kingdom[1] and closer cooperation with the United States.[2] During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (followed by the recession and the debt crisis caused by it) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. In the 2012 election, the Socialist François Hollande defeated Sarkozy by a margin of 3.2 percentage points, or 1,139,983 votes. After leaving the Presidential office, Sarkozy vowed to retire from public life.[4] However, in September 2014, he announced his return to politics,[5] and the UMP party (since renamed to The Republicans) has subsequently reelected him as its leader. On 2 July 2014, Sarkozy was charged with corruption by French prosecutors.
