Nicolas SARKOZY: “I may have no choice but to save France from Socialists”

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy does not want to return to politics, but can do it for the good of the country. “There may unfortunately be a moment when the question is no longer: ‘Do you feel like it?’ but ‘Have you got a choice?’ In which case, certainly, I will be forced to return. Not because I feel like it. Because of duty. Solely because it is France,” Sarkozy said in an interview to the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. He also noted that in different circumstances he would not wish to engage in the political world, which is deadly boring. “Then, just look at how they treated me! How they summoned me for a 13-hour interrogation in the case of Bettencourt… Not to mention how they treated my wife (Carla Bruni-Sarkozy) – forbade to sing for five years,” said the former president of France, who has been made a witness on the high-profile case of L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. According to investigators, he took advantage of the weakness of Bettencourt, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, in order to get money for his political campaign from her. Nicolas Sarkozy was the president of France from 2007 until 2012, when Socialist Francois Hollande took the high post.