Sarkozy’s mother does not want him to marry again

THE mother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy does not want him to marry again and told a French magazine she has “had enough of brides”.

Andrée Sarkozy, 80, told Point de Vue magazine her son should have no trouble finding a new woman after divorcing his wife Cécilia.

“You know, in his post, he can only have the difficulty of choosing. But I hope that nobody will get married again. I’ve had enough of brides,” she said.

Mr Sarkozy announced his divorce in October, six months after he was elected to power. He was married for 11 years.

Cécilia and the president have a young son together and two children each from previous marriages.

Andrée Sarkozy said she had got on well with Cecilia.

Referring to her own three sons, Ms Sarkozy said: “I was never strict, but I had three rules: that they work, don’t tell me lies and do sports.”

Mr Sarkozy, who presents himself as a hands-on president, made one of his campaign slogans “Work more to earn more”.

His mother, a lawyer, brought up her three sons after their father left when they were young.

Of Cécilia she said: “We had a good relationship without being close. She is cold but she doesn’t do it on purpose and she has always been nice to me.”

Mr Sarkozy’s possible love interests are the source of much gossip. The latest with whom he has been linked is Laurence Ferrari, a television news presenter.

Ms Sarkozy talked of her pride in her “brilliant” Nicolas, the son to whom she had always been closest. Even as a boy, he was fascinated with politics.

“When he was 14, when I gave a dinner, the other two would disappear with their chums but he would stay because he liked talking to my doctor and lawyer friends.”

France’s First Mother also rated “the girls” in his cabinet.

“The one who knocks me out with her elegant looks is Christine Lagarde,” she said of the finance minister, a lawyer who has spent much of her career in the US.

“I have talked to her less than with the two kids,” she said, referring to Rachida Dati, the 42-year-old justice minister and glamour figure in the Cabinet and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 34, the junior ecology minister.