In the French presidential election in 2002, Sarkozy returned to Chirac and ran around for his father-in-law's re-election. Of course, he also has his own plans-trying to get the position of prime minister. However, after Chirac was re-elected, he gave the prime minister's throne to raffarin, who was unfamiliar to the French. But Chirac gave him the scepter of the interior minister. He decided to turn the Ministry of the Interior into his own battlefield. He tried his best to crack down on criminal activities and firmly grasped the attention of the media. The French media once sang a hymn for Sarkozy with the praise of "Sleep peacefully, he is guarding you". In May 2005, due to the failure of the referendum on the EU constitutional treaty, Chirac replaced the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Sarkozy's position remains unchanged, and he continues to serve as Minister of State and concurrently as Minister of the Interior. He adopted an iron fist policy in the "Paris riots" that happened at the end of that year, which quickly quelled the turmoil sweeping the country and showed his courage and talent in governing the country. In 2002, the right-wing United big party "Presidential Majority Alliance" (later renamed People's Movement Alliance), which was composed of right-wing and center-right parties such as the Alliance for Defending Peace, won the legislative election and occupied a majority of seats in the National Assembly. Sarkozy participated in it and was elected as the chairman of the ruling party in June 2004. In June 5438 +2007 10, the People's Movement League supported Sarkozy as the only candidate of the ruling party to participate in this presidential election with 98% of the votes. In March, Chirac announced his retirement and made it clear that he supported Sarkozy. Sarkozy's campaign slogan of "peaceful break with the past France" won the hearts of the people, making him win the first round of voting in the general election on April 22 and enter the final. His vote rate exceeded 30%, reaching 3 1? 18%, which is the support rate that right-wing candidates have never achieved in the first round of voting in previous presidential elections.
In the end, he won the French presidential election in 2007 with 53% support rate and became the French president after Chirac. In the first round of voting held on April 22nd, 20 12, Hollande and Sarkozy won 28.63% and 27. 18% of valid votes respectively, and entered the second round of competition.
The second round of voting in the French presidential election was held at 8: 00 am on May 6, 20 12. Sarkozy, the current president and candidate of the People's Movement League, a right-wing party, and Hollande, a left-wing socialist candidate, competed for the next presidential position.
According to the preliminary statistics released by the French Ministry of the Interior, francois hollande, a socialist candidate, defeated Nicolas Sarkozy by a narrow margin in the second round of the presidential election held that day and was elected as the new president of France.
According to the preliminary statistics released by the French Ministry of the Interior, Hollande and Sarkozy got 5 1.24% and 48.76% of the valid votes respectively.
Sarkozy admitted at a rally of supporters in Paris earlier that he lost to Hollande in the second round of the presidential election, and he himself would take full responsibility for the election failure. He called Hollande that night to congratulate him on his election. But Hollande will face a severe test, and he wishes the new president good luck.
The current presidency is scheduled to end on May 65, 2005. Traditionally, the time of the inauguration ceremony was decided by the elected president and the outgoing president through consultation. According to French media reports, Sarkozy met with more than 20 campaign team members including Prime Minister Fillon and General Secretary of the People's Movement League Kirby at the Elysee Palace on May 7. During the meeting, Sarkozy said that he would bid farewell to politics forever and would not participate in next month's parliamentary elections or any subsequent elections.
Although he lost his re-election, le figaro describes Sarkozy's struggle to the last moment. Although he was defeated, his achievements in the past five years will be judged by history. Since the failure of re-election in May 20 12, Sarkozy lost his criminal immunity and was investigated by the judicial department. 20 13 In March, the local prosecutor's office in Bordeaux, a city in southwest France, confirmed that three Bordeaux judges had charged Sarkozy on suspicion of "taking advantage of his weakness to make profits" and launched a formal investigation. However, the judiciary decided not to prosecute Sarkozy.
20 14 On June 30th, Sarkozy's lawyer Herzog and two senior judges were detained by the anti-corruption office of the judicial police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. On the morning of July, 2065438, Kloc-0, Sarkozy was summoned to the anti-corruption office of the judicial police in Nanterre, west of Paris. This is the first time in French history that a former president was detained by the police on suspicion of corruption. Anti-corruption investigators in the judiciary can control Sarkozy's freedom and question him within the next 24 hours. The time limit can be extended to 48 hours if necessary.
The reason for this summons was that the judicial department suspected that Sarkozy was trying to bribe local judges to get inside information about his investigation of illegal fund-raising in the 2007 general election. In exchange, Sarkozy promised to give each other a senior position. Investigators also believe that Sarkozy may have learned that judicial officers have monitored his mobile phone, which has affected the investigation of related cases. On September 19, 2065438, Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced his candidacy for the presidency of the French People's Movement League. If the election is successful, he is expected to participate in the French presidential election in 20 17.
Sarkozy said that after careful consideration, he decided to return now. He hopes to "completely transform" the People's Movement League within three months, and build a state of "extensive alliance" that crosses "traditional boundaries" and "faces all French people".
Shortly before Sarkozy announced his comeback, a French public opinion poll showed that the public opinion support rate of the current President Hollande was only 13%.
According to a poll published on the website of ATLANTICO, the French "CSA" polling station, on June 5438+08, more than one third of the French people think that if Sarkozy or former Prime Minister Alain Juppe were the French presidents today, they would do better than Francois Hollande.