France’s former president is planning a campaign to retake his office – on a platform of repealing same-sex marriage.
Nicolas Sarkozy was France’s president for a single term, from 2007 to 2012, when he lost to Socialist politician François Hollande. Sarkozy has been divorced twice and married three times. It is reported both he and his current wife were “both having affairs.”
After losing, Sarkozy, now 59, said he was retiring from politics.
But the French conservative is planning a return to politics, and wants his old job back. Sarkozy believes the road to the presidency for him this time is built on the backs of gay people, specifically, same-sex couples.
Speaking on Saturday to a conservative group, Sarkozy called for repeal of the nation’s same-sex marriage law, saying it needs “rewriting from top to bottom.” He added he supports some legal recognition for same-sex couples, but not marriage and not adoption.
Hollande promised during his campaign to bring same-sex marriage to France. He did, despite often violent protests by groups like La Manif Pour Tous, affiliated with America’s National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown. A recent poll finds 68 percent of France supports the rights of same-sex couples to marry.
In September, Sarkozy said same-sex marriage is “humiliating families and humiliating people who love the family.”
In July, Sarkozy, who lost to Hollande by 1.1 million votes, was “charged with corruption and influence peddling.”
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