French record by Claudia Sonea

Surely it is well known that French presidents always keep their personal life private. However, Sarkozy has always filled the first pages with his marriage issues. Even the run for the president was marked by the fact that the adversary was a woman. So, the 15-word statement made on Thursday confirmed all the rumors that circulated in the last months about marriage problems, France first couple is no more. The job for first lady is vacant. Cecilia, the 42-years-old wife of Nicholas Sarkozy, 52, refused to answer at the question of when the divorce was requested. Close friends say the separation will not affect in any way the state affairs, although it will have a sentimental impact on the head of the state. Moreover, according to Isabelle Balkany, a friend of the couple, the president's wife had a hard time accepting her role as a first lady. Even she confesses to be bored by such a position and not to be fit for it in a statement to the magazine Tele Star in May 2005. Her withdraw was started to become obvious in June when she left earlier from the first couple official event, a G-8 summit in Germany. Also she skipped lunch with President Bush when they were on holiday in New Hampshire in August. Provided that the critics in France said she was not appropriate for the diplomatic mission of freeing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor in Libya, Cecilia felt really offended. Despite the fact that their problems were not something new for anyone, after their brief separation in 2005 when she was photographed with another man and the reconciliation that followed at the beginning of 2006, everyone expected to last more than 2 years. Indeed they were together for 20 years (11 years married) and raised their five children (two each from their previous marriages, as well as their own 10-year-old son, Louis) showing off with them on 16 May at the presidential inauguration. Even he declared in his 2006 book entitled Testimony that their issues were solved and they will be forever together. Politics, who knows the truth? People say that everything was a strategy in order to avoid the biggest problem he has now with the massive protests that are about to be held in regarding his pension reforms. Stay connected….more to come.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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