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The Paris court ordered Tuesday, October 19, the hearing of Nicolas Sarkozy in the trial on the Elysee polls. The former president of the Republic will be heard as a witness on November 2.
Nicolas Sarkozy did not want to come and explain himself in the case from Elysee polls. The Paris court will now force him to testify. He is not prosecuted because he is covered by his presidential immunity. But the court considered Tuesday, October 19 his testimony necessary, a victory for the association anti Corruption Anticor. In this case, Claude Guéant, former secretary general of the Élysée Palace, Patrick Buisson, long-time shadow adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, and Emmanuelle Mignon, former director of the head of state’s cabinet, have been on trial since Monday in Paris for embezzlement or concealment of public funds.
The judges suspect them of not having followed the rules of tendering in order to order the hundreds of surveys between 2007 and 2012. Several million euros of public money are spent on opinion studies the subject of which questions, such as the image of the couple Bruni-Sarkozy or the popularity rating of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then possible opponent of Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 presidential election. It is in particular on the usefulness and the purpose of these polls that the former president will be heard by justice on November 2.