Constrained and forced, Nicolas Sarkozy finally made public his personal inheritance. After having obstinately refused to reveal it during the presidential program, its election with the presidency of the Republic resulted in declaring it near the constitutional Council, which was to publish it illico with the Official Journal as requires it the electoral code. Friday at the end of the afternoon, at the end one day of suspense, the OJ being victim of a data-processing bug, figuring was finally made public.

Stamps. According to his own declarations, Nicolas Sarkozy lays out, on a purely principal basis, of two contracts of life insurance of a total amount of two million euros. The sum appears to correspond to the resale, the last autumn, of its apartment with Neuilly for 1,9 million euros. It also holds nearly 100.000 euros on bank accounts or to saving (PEL, CODEVI and currant account), of which some in the name of his/her children. And it is about all… Its stamp collection (exonerated from the STF as well as the works of art), of which it does make great case in its notes of Who' S who? The heading “collections, jewel, objet d'art, invaluable stone”, Sarkozy answers “nothing”. In the chapter “other goods”, always nothing. But the new President takes care to mention Austin Minis (registered in 2006) of a value of 15.000 euros.

This declaration of inheritance is completed by the usual mention: “I certify on the honor the exactitude and the sincerity of these declarations. ” Is. Under its professional credits, it mentions the 34% of the law firm of businesses which it created in 2002 with Me Arnaud Claude whose customers are consisted of the groups Bouygues, Vivendi and other property developers. Minister then president of the Republic, Sarkozy does not have any more the right to put on the dress, which does not prevent it from boxing the benefit of a cabinet bearing its name. Moderately, it does not give any value to its participation in the company “Nicolas Sarkozy-Arnaud Claude”. According to our information, its 34% with the capital weigh today a minimum of 125.000 euros in addition to the dividends which it perceived annually, 60.000 euros to date.

Appreciation. With the “liability”, Nicolas Sarkozy mentions a loan of 1,1 million euros, of which it is “guarantee on a purely personal basis for 34%”. This part of its declaration could pose problem, insofar as a third of this sum borrowed by its law firm were already refunded. Especially, this loan had other finality only to ensure an appreciation My Claude and Sarkozy of the same amount, which one pains to find the trace in his declaration of inheritance.

Taking into account its important annual incomes (minister, president de Conseil general, author of bestsellers), the declared inheritance of Nicolas Sarkozy appears quite weak. In 2002, its only incomes came very close to threshold of constraint to the STF (750 000 euros), without very taking into account the value of its apartment with Neuilly. It should be deduced from it that it spends much. But with an inheritance largely higher than two million euros, it is not easily comprehensible that Sarkozy paid the STF only since 2006.