Sarkozy Gives Post To 23-Year-Old Son, Is Accused Of Nepotism

Times Online:

President Sarkozy caused embarrassment among his political allies yesterday with news that his 23-year-old student son is to be handed the powerful post of boss of Europe's biggest business district.

As the Opposition cried nepotism, stalwarts of Mr Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement said that the President was going too far in lining up Jean, a third-year student, to head the public agency that runs La Defense, the island of corporate towers in the west of Paris.

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Comments

[andrushka]

I totally agree. Now we just have to wait for Louis to finish his schooling to find out which job he'll get. The French Gouvernment stinks with all these appointments of friends we wonder if ever there had been a revolution some centuries ago.

[UnePetiteParisienne]

Nepotism at his finest ...
Sometimes I must agree with Rumsfeld (or was it Cheney? either way I never thought I would utter or worst write those words) : France is definitely part of Old Europe on that one, and I don't mean in a good way.