Nicolas Sarkozy displayed a “worrying impulsiveness” and his “shocking comments” to woo the far-Right lost him the last election, according to his ex-wife in extracts of a “tell-all” autobiography, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Cecilia Attias, whose marriage to Mr Sarkozy, the former French President, lasted for 11 years until their divorce in 2007, has said he was an impulsive man who would fly into rages, in contrast to his public image.
The couple had a well-publicised split when she left Mr Sarkozy in May 2005 for several months for the international communications consultant, Richard Attias. She returned to her husband in the run up to the 2007 elections, but the two divorced later that year.
In her new book “Une Envie de Vérité (A Desire For Truth), extracts of which were published in Le Point and Elle magazine, the 55-year-old former model reveals that she fell for the reassuringly “solid and calm” Mr Attias in contrast to the “misleading superficiality” of Mr Sarkozy.
In some of the most damaging extracts for a man widely tipped to be seeking to make a presidential comeback bid in 2017, Mrs Attias comments on the former Right-wing leader’s temperament and political judgment.
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