Cécilia Sarkozy

Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz , born on November 12th, 1957 with Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French personality .
It was the second wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the 23e president of the French Republic, and for this reason France's First Lady, until the divorce officially announced on October 18th, 2007 by an official statement of the Elysium.

Biography

His/her father, Andre Ciganer, born with Bălţi (current Moldavie) in 1898, is resulting from a family of Jewish landowners. With its premium adolescence, it leaves its country and traverses Europe provided with a passport of stateless person. It meets in Spain his future wife and mother of Cécilia, Teresita (known as Diana) Albeniz, girl of Spanish Ambassadeur and grand-daughter of the Compositeur Isaac Albéniz. It binds friendship with Joseph Kessel and settles with Paris in the Années 1940, like furrier.

Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz has three older brothers:

Patrick Ciganer is American citizen, and works in a financial unit of management of NASA.
Christian Ciganer is consulting (Framatome, Axa, Groupe Lagardere, Building and loan association of France, Accor, Aurel Conseil, etc), and was blamed in the business of the sale of the room Pleyel.
Ivan Antoine Ciganer is sales manager of Movistar Peru, adviser with the foreign trade of France and chair free Chamber of commerce - Peruvian.

In addition, it is the Cousine of current the Maire of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.

Child, it suffers from cardiac problems which delay its growth. It is operated in heart open to the 13 years age, and then quickly makes up for its lost time of growth (it measures 1,78 m today).

While following studies of Piano (it obtains a first price with the Conservatoire), Cécilia obtains its baccalaureat B after thirteen years with the Institut of the Assumption, street of Lübeck, and starts studies of Droit to the university Paris-II Assas. At the time, she saw small employment, works in the communication and becomes Mannequin cabin at Schiaparelli. She gives up finally the right and becomes attached Parlementaire of Rene Touzet, Senator of the Indre (democratic Gauche) and friend of her brother.

She meets then wife on August 10th, 1984 Jacques Martin (1933-2007), the organizer high-speed motorboat of Sunday Martin and of the School of the fans . Its witness of marriage is Conrada of the Brush, marries François of the Brush. This marriage takes place with the town hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine and is celebrated by its mayor Nicolas Sarkozy. It then ceases working. They will have together two girls, Judith (born on August 22nd, 1984) and Jeanne-Marie (born on June 8th, 1987).

It leaves then Jacques Martin to join Nicolas Sarkozy, in company of her two daughters, old then of six months and two years and half. It obtains the Divorce in four months (1989). Later on, once officially marked the divorce between Nicolas Sarkozy and his first wife, Cécilia and Nicolas marry on October 23rd, 1996 with Neuilly. They had a son together, Louis, were born on April 28th, 1997.

In May 2005, she entrusts in an interview to Télé Star : I do not see myself in First lady . That shaves me. I am not politically correct. I trott myself as a Jean, lattice or santiags. I do not return in the mould. . And in full shift of the French Referendum on the European constitution, it does not appear any more at the sides of her husband. The French media are made the echo of the rumor of marital problems. Elsewhere in Europe, of the newspapers like the Morning of French-speaking Switzerland and Libre Belgique indicate that it left to New York and would maintain a connection with the director Publicis Events, Richard Attias. Nicolas Sarkozy, according to the rumor, for this period would have maintained a relation followed with a journalist the Figaro , Anne Fulda. In August 2005, one sees Cécilia Sarkozy with the one of Paris-Match with Richard Attias. Nicolas Sarkozy attacks in justice the Morning , which diffuses a few hundreds of specimens in France, for “intrusion and invasion of privacy” and obtains win partially.

October 18th, 2007, after many rumors relayed by the Swiss press then French, the divorce by consent of the couple, pronounced by a judge three days before, is made public by the Elysium.

Role in policy

Before the French presidential election of 2007

It becomes a known personality of the media like member of the ministerial cabinets of her husband as of 2002, even if it were always present at its sides in its various political activities. In order to avoid polemic very, Nicolas Sarkozy indicates that his wife is not remunerated for her work.

It in general did not have an official role, just an office beside her husband, except on an occasion: it was officially named adviser technical with the cabinet of her husband the minister of state, Minister for the Economy, Finances and Industry (Official journal of Saturday April 24th 2004).

In July 2004, the daily newspaper Libération allots a matter to him according to which it underlines not to have “any French blood drops in the veins”. This matter is recalled during the presidential campaign of 2007 by Marine Le Pen after his/her father Jean-Marie Le Pen regarded Nicolas Sarkozy as the candidate “resulting from immigration”.

November 9th, 2005, according to the Duck connected of November 16th, 2005, Nicolas Sarkozy convenes with the ministry for the Interior the general president-director of the Éditions First , Vincent Barbare, to threaten it of “the legal and varied lightnings”. This publisher was on the point of publishing on November 24th the work signed of Valérie Domain, journalist with Gala , and entitled Cécilia Sarkozy, between the heart and the reason . In an interview of the Parisian published the November 18th 2005, Cécila Sarkozy indicates that it is it which alerted her husband on the exit of the book. “I do not wish that my private life be médiatisée”, she affirmed. The author affirms as for it that Cécilia Sarkozy was perfectly with the current of the content of the book. Valérie Domain wishes that its work be published and came into contact with the editor Fayard. In spite of pressures of Arnaud Lagardere, director of the Hatchet group, on Claude Durand, director of Beech, the biography of Cécilia Sarkozy by Valérie Domain was published on February 8th, 2006 and was drawn with: 100000 specimens under the title Between the heart and the reason in the form of novel with the editions Beech. Cécilia had given its agreement for this biography before raviser after multiple discussions with the author. Because of the legal threats of proceedings by the Sarkozy couple, Cécilia appears there under the name of “Célia Michaut-Rope-maker, wife of an influential politician”. “A woman leaves a man for another. Man of being able, this other sees it in his turn escaping to him for a third. Consequently, it does not have of cease to reconquer it” summarizes the author.

At the time of the first turn of the presidential election of 2007, it votes in company of her husband and his two daughters, putting an end to several weeks media invisibility which had fed various rumors. However on April 26th, 2007, is ten days before the second turn of the presidential election, various foreign newspapers show the information of a new separation of the couple Cécilia and Nicolas Sarkozy. The French press remains largely dumb. Beyond the respect of the private life wanted by the law, these same newspapers point finger the lack of independence of the French newspapers suspected of weakness with respect to the capacity. It makes a reappearance noticed the evening of the election towards 23:00 by accompanying her husband, who has just been elected, place of the Harmony where the Union for a popular movement (UMP) festival its victory with the presidential election.

Cécilia Sarkozy does not exert any more any official function within UMP but has an office at the HQ of countryside of her husband for the presidential campaign of 2007. According to the Times , she would have convinced her husband to call upon François of the Brush, the husband of one of her friends, and with Rachida Dati.

Questioned on its possible role of wife of president, she answered according to the NewYork Times that, in ten years, she saw herself rather in New York, making jogging in Central Park .

May 13rd, 2007, the Sunday newspaper would have decided not to publish an article which affirms, evidence with the support, which Cécilia Sarkozy abstained from voting on May 6th, 2007 at the time of the second round the presidential elections. According to Rue89 .com, media on line created by former journalists of Release , the editor association of the newspaper would have undergone important pressures, of which that of Arnaud Lagardere, majority shareholder of the newspaper. In spite of a denial of Jacques Esperandieu affirming to have acted “without the least pressure”, the trade unions of journalists of Hatchet-Lagardere protest on May 14th, 2007 against a “breach of liberty of expression”, imitated on May 15th, 2007 by the journalists of the Sunday newspaper denouncing “an unacceptable censure”.

Role with the Presidency

Before its divorce, Cécilia Sarkozy had of a press attaché and a principal private secretary. According to Raphaëlle Bacqué, journalist with the World and Christophe Barbier, editor association of the Express train , Cécilia Sarkozy would have chosen and introduced, within the presidential cabinet, the various principal advisers of Nicolas Sarkozy, now known of the general public (Henri Guaino for example). She also had a diplomatic role at the beginning of the presidency of her ex-husband. Nicolas of Granville, 45 years, advised it in its displacements abroad. Its first action in 2007 was to accompany, in all end of negotiations carried out by the European Union, the release of the doctor and the Bulgarian nurses while going twice to Tripoli in Libya, action which made polemic. Cécilia Sarkozy should be questioned at the time of the opening of a parliamentary board of inquiry. Its arrival in Libya would have been the occasion to lead Mouammar Kadhafi to sign several contracts of which one would be in relation to nuclear energy and would rise to several million euros.

It was promoted citizen of honor of Sofia at the same time as her husband and the emissary European Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

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