Nicolas Sarkozy est grand-père d'un petit garçon
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: FRANCE | Le fils cadet du président de la République, Jean Sarkozy, et son épouse Jessica sont devenus mercredi matin les parents d'un petit garçon, selon une source proche de la présidence.

Le prénom du petit garçon n'a pas été dévoilé.

Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, héritière du géant de l'éléctroménager, et Jean Sarkozy, 23 ans, se sont mariés le 10 septembre 2008 à la mairie de Neuilly-sur-Seine. Jean Sarkozy, élu conseiller général des Hauts-de-Seine en mars 2008, est le deuxième fils de Nicolas Sarkozy et de sa première épouse Marie-Dominique Culioli. >>> AP | Mercredi 13 Janvier 2010

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Jean Sarkozy au JT de 20h sur France 2 - Epad
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Nicolas Sarkozy Suffers Most Humiliating Climb-down of Presidency
THE TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy was yesterday reeling from the most humiliating public climb-down of his presidency after his 23-year old son announced he would not run France's largest business district as many from the president's own camp feared the nepotism scandal would cost him dear.

Jean Sarkozy caused astonishment by pulling the plug on his fast-track rise to take over the political leadership of La Défense, the huge skyscraper complex just west of the capital dubbed "France's Manhattan".

The second year undergraduate law student – who has been a county councillor for 18 months -was guaranteed the plum job as presidential loyalists command a majority on La Défense's £100 million-a-year public agency. Instead he settled yesterday for a place on the body's board.

A prime-time performance was remarkably polished for a 23-year-old, who said he preferred not to win a "victory stained with doubt".

But few believed his claim that he had made the decision on his own. There was no doubt among observers that his father had caved in to spiralling public hostility, much of it from his own disoriented right-wing electorate. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Friday, October 23, 2009

Sarkozy versucht den Schaden zu begrenzen: Wirbel um den Präsidentensohn als Folge einer krassen Fehleinschätzung
NZZ ONLINE: Der misslungene Versuch, den Sohn des französischen Staatschefs auf eine Führungsposition zu katapultieren, hat die Grenzen der Macht von Präsident Sarkozy aufgezeigt. Dafür gesorgt hat die öffentliche Meinung.

Jean Sarkozy, der ältere Sohn des französischen Präsidenten, steht für den Posten an der Spitze des Geschäftsviertels «La Défense» nun doch nicht zur Verfügung. Wie bereits kurz gemeldet, hat der 23-Jährige am Donnerstagabend nach einer Welle der Empörung erklärt, dass er angesichts der zwei Wochen dauernden Kampagne gegen ihn von einer Kandidatur absehe. Die Position im Verwaltungsrat der Behörde, die ihn am 4. Dezember wahrscheinlich zum Geschäftsführer gewählt hätte, will er aber antreten. Schwerer Rückschlag >>> Manfred Rist, Paris | Freitag, 23. Oktober 2009

In Vaters Fussstapfen: Wirbel um die Blitzkarriere des Präsidentensohns Jean Sarkozy in Paris
NZZ ONLINE: Jean Sarkozy, der erst 23-jährige Sohn des Staatspräsidenten, soll die Verantwortung für das Businessviertel «La Défense» bei Paris übernehmen. Dies hat in Frankreich für Polemik und in der Weltpresse für ironische Kommentare gesorgt.

Kaum haben sich in Frankreich die Wellen nach dem Skandal um Kulturminister Frédéric Mitterrand, der am Fernsehen wegen Sextourismus in der Vergangenheit Abbitte leisten musste, etwas geglättet, schon macht eine andere Geschichte Schlagzeilen. Einer der Söhne des Staatschefs, der erst 23-jährige Jean Sarkozy, soll einen verantwortungsvollen Posten erben. Die bürgerliche Mehrheit im Département-Rat der Hauts-de-Seine, in der westlichen Agglomeration der Hauptstadt, schlägt ihren Vorsitzenden, Jean Sarkozy, als Nachfolger des aus Altersgründen scheidenden Geschäftsführers des EPAD (Etablissement Public pour l'Aménagement de la Région de la Défense), Minister Patrick Devedjian, vor. Diese öffentlichrechtliche Gesellschaft führt die Regie im modernen Quartier «La Défense» mit seinen zahlreichen Geschäftssitzen grosser Unternehmen. Fils à papa >>> Rudolf Balmer, Paris | Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009

L'état, c'est moi: The Cult of Sarko
THE INDEPENDENT: Midway though his term of office, the President's imperious ways are provoking a growing outcry. Last night Sarkozy and son were forced into a humiliating climbdown to regain the public's trust

Never before has a 23-year-old student's announcement that he's withdrawing a job application caused such waves of astonishment and relief. Last night Jean Sarkozy, the son of the French President, abandoned his dream of taking over the political leadership of the huge La Défense skyscraper park just west of Paris.

The announcement by the young man, on the television news, brought to an end a battle of political wills which appeared, in recent days, to have pitted the Sarkozy clan against almost the whole of France, from the press and public to the President's own party and Prime Minister.

The tangled and absurd affair of the fast-track political ambitions of "Prince Jean" has – along with a series of other mis-steps, accidents and embarrassments – shaken the trust of the French people in their hyperactive, can-do President. Last night's U-turn, although elegantly handled by the younger Sarkozy, may have come too late to repair the damage.

Asked if the head of state had played a part in the decision, Jean Sarkozy told the France 2 nightly news: "If you're asking me if I've spoken to the President, the answer is 'No'. If you're asking me if I've spoken to my father, the answer is 'Yes'."

Nicolas Sarkozy reaches the half-way point of his five-year presidency in a couple of weeks' time. There is no serious alternative to him, either on the left or within his own political family, the centre right. His handling of the global recession has been reasonably sure-footed at home and influential abroad. His much-trumpeted programme of reforms has proved to be incremental and cautious, rather than revolutionary, but far from pointless.

Nonetheless, with half of his mandate still to run, President Sarkozy's carefully constructed public image as a "different" kind of French politician – a man who governs in the interest of ordinary people, not elites or special interests; a man who understands the reality of life for "people who rise early" – is in danger of falling apart. >>> John Lichfield | Friday, October 23, 2009

THE TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy's son Jean says he will not seek presidency of La Defense: President Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year-old son has said he will not seek the leadership of the organisation that runs France's most important business district. >>> | Thursday, October 22, 2009

Jean Sarkozy renonce à la présidence de La Défense
LE FIGARO: Au coeur d'une violente polémique, le fils du chef de l'Etat a annoncé ce soir sur France 2 qu'il ne briguera pas la tête de l'établissement public d'aménagement de La Défense.

Jean Sarkozy renonce à l'Epad. Le fils du chef de l'Etat a mis un terme jeudi à quinze jours de polémique en annonçant lui-même son retrait de la course à la présidence de l'établissement public d'aménagement de La Défense à la veille de l'élection. «Je serai candidat au poste d'administrateur de l'Epad, mais si je suis élu, je ne briguerai pas la présidence», a-t-il ainsi assuré sur France 2, arguant qu'il n'aurait pas voulu d'une «victoire entachée de soupçons».

«C'est ma décision», a-t-il expliqué à David Pujadas. «Est-ce que j'en ai parlé au président ? Non. Au père, oui», mais «c'est une décision que j'ai pris seul et que j'assume seul». Revenant sur ces deux dernières semaines mouvementées, Jean Sarkozy a expliqué qu'il avait été victime d'une véritable «campagne de désinformation» qui a engendré des «soupçons» à son égard. «Ma candidature était légitime», a-t-il affirmé, comme il l'avait déjà fait sur le plateau de France 3 et dans les colonnes du Point. «Une grande victoire», selon le PCF >>> F.G. (lefigaro.fr) | Jeudi 22 Octobre 2009

L’affaire Jean Sarkozy inquiète la droite
LE TEMPS: L’image du président Nicolas Sarkozy souffre de la promotion éclair de son fils aîné, qui brigue la direction de l’organisme public qui gère La Défense

«C’est très mauvais pour lui»: voilà le jugement d’un familier du pouvoir sur l’impact de «l’affaire Jean» pour Nicolas Sarkozy. L’arrivée de son fils à La Défense inquiète la droite française, d’autant qu’elle intervient dans une «séquence» difficile, marquée, dans les milieux conservateurs, par l’idée que le président a perdu sa boussole morale. Vote en forme de déroute >>> Sylvain Besson | Vendredi 16 Octobre 2009

Scandalous Nepotism from Napoleon II
TIMES ONLINE – BLOG: The term banana republic has been used by a couple of French friends in reaction to the news from Paris this week. They were referring to the high-handed way that France's ruler and his caste have been behaving in two or three current matters.The latest involves an astonishing act of nepotism by Nicolas Sarkozy. His barons are about to elevate Jean Sarkozy, the President's 23-year-old, undergraduate son, to a powerful and prized executive post. Sarkozy rules, okay >>> Charles Bremner | Sunday, October 11, 2009

Nicolas Sarkozy: My Son Jean Was 'Thrown to the Wolves'
TIMES ONLINE: President Sarkozy complained today that his son Jean was being hounded unjustly as controversy continued to rage over the appointment of the 23-year-old student as head of France's premium business district.

Mr Sarkozy blamed the media and opponents for persecuting Jean over his imminent appointment as chairman of Epad, the development agency that administers La Défense, the business quarter on the western edge of Paris.

"It is never right for someone to be thrown to the wolves without reason," he said. His first comment on "the Prince Jean affair" came after he made a speech in praise of France's egalitarian tradition.

Napoleon Bonaparte had rendered France a great service in "ending the privilege of birth", the President told a group of sixth-formers. "That means that what counts in success in France is not being well-born, it is to have worked hard and proved by one's studies and worth."

The pupils and dignitaries struggled to stay solemn. France has been riveted for days by the sudden ascent of the President's second son, who is repeating his second year of undergraduate law studies. >>> Charles Bremner | Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Jean Sarkozy partout d’avenir >>>

«Prince Jean» au cœur de la polémique
LE TEMPS: Jean Sarkozy à la tête du plus grand quartier d’affaires d’Europe? L’annonce d’une probable accession, à 23 ans, du fils du président français à la direction d’un organisme au chiffre d’affaire d’un milliard d’euros, provoque un tollé qui ne cesse de s’amplifier. Le président s’est indigné mardi que son fils soit jeté «en pâture».

L’arrivée possible de Jean Sarkozy à la tête de la Défense, le grand quartier d’affaires à l’ouest de Paris, n’en finit pas de susciter remous et sarcasmes. Dans les médias étrangers, c’est le terme de népotisme qui revient le plus souvent. Un journaliste du Times n’hésite pas à parler de «république bananière». Et déjà la télévision chinoise CCTV ironise sur ce «petit Sarkozy» et se demande dans un reportage repéré par Rue89 «comment un homme aussi jeune qui n’a même pas fini ses études peut diriger un organisme aussi important?» >>> Simon Pittet | Mardi 13 Octobre 2009

LE TEMPS: Accusations de népotisme contre Nicolas Sarkozy : Le fils cadet du président proposé à la tête du plus grand quartier d’affaires du pays >>> AFP | Mardi 13 Octobre 2009

Sarkozy's Son Sparks Nepotism Row after Being Tipped for Top Public Job
THE GUARDIAN: French president's son Jean tipped to head France's powerful La Défense development agency but critics say he lacks legitimacy

The Sarkozy dynasty was embroiled in another nepotism row today , after the French president's 23-year-old son Jean was tipped to head the public agency running Paris's La Défense , one of Europe's biggest business districts.

The young Sarkozy, who has not yet finished his university degree, is currently a local councillor in the wealthy Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, where his father rose to power 30 years ago. Dubbed "Prince Jean" by his critics, he has had a meteoric rise to power in his father's old fiefdom and currently leads the rightwing council majority in the Hauts-de-Seine, the richest department in France. >>> Angelique Chrisafis in Paris | Friday, October 09, 2009

Nico et Carlita
"Do you see how beautiful she is ? And she has got brains too. That makes a change." - Sarkozy to Blair
THE SUNDAY TIMES: The discreet marriage of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the Italian model-singer, drew shrugs in much of France today but not in Neuilly, the opulent western Paris suburb where the President was mayor for 19 years.

In cold sunshine on the street market, Jean Sarkozy, the President's 21-year-old son, was congratulated by Sunday morning shoppers who wished their best for Sarko and his Italian third wife. Student Sarko, the second son from Mr Sarkozy's first marriage, was one of 20 present at the Saturday ceremony on the first floor of the Elysée Palace.

"I hope it will go better for my father now," Jean told The Times as he tasted olives from a market stall. "Things have been pretty difficult lately."

Mr Sarkozy was canvassing for David Martinon, 36, his father's spokesman, who is running for Mayor of Neully in council elections next month. The polls in all 36,000 French councils are the first electoral test of the presidency and Mr Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement fears that the "Carla effect" will add to their woes.

Jean Sarkozy's hopes for a turn in his father's fortunes are shared at the Elysée, which has felt the strain since November. That month, Mr Sarkozy, just divorced from Cécilia Ciganer, met Ms Bruni and threw himself into a very public courtship while his ratings plumetted. The UMP also hopes that the wedding will close a turbulent chapter and that France will soon forget a glitzy romance that tarnished the president's image. Sarko's son: I hope things will be better for dad now he's married >>> By Charles Bremner, of The Times, Paris


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