2012 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 22 April 2012, with a second round run-off held on 6 May to elect the President of France. The incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was running for a second five-year term for which he was eligible for under the Constitution of France.
Image: François Hollande (Journées de Nantes 2012)
Image: Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010
The candidates of the Ecology primary sitting together
Socialist Party: President of the General Council of Corrèze, former First Secretary of the Socialist Party and MP François Hollande
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a French politician who served as the president of France and co-prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.
Sarkozy in 2022
Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni greet President Barack Obama at the G8 Summit dinner in Deauville, France, 26 May 2011.
Sarkozy speaking at the congress of his party, 28 November 2004
Sarkozy as Minister of the Interior with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after their bilateral meeting in Washington, D.C., 12 September 2006