Jean Sarkozy, the 23-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, bowed to intense public pressure by giving up his ambition to run the French government's Epad-agency that oversees France’s biggest business district, La Défense - popularly known as the business-district of Paris.
Elected barely two years ago, Jean Sarkozy is repeating the second year of his undergraduate law studies, and is widely regarded as being too inexperienced to become Chairman of the Epad agency. In an interview on national television on Thursday night, the young local councillor, elected in the department that was the launchpad for his own father’s bid for the presidency, said he was not prepared to accept a “victory tainted by the suspicion of favoritism”.
The move is a severe blow to President Sarkozy who has several times in recent weeks defied public opinion to defend his son’s bid to run an agency overseeing a district generating 10 per cent of French gross domestic product.
Jean Sarkozy’s bid to run the business quarter to the west of Paris has come under fierce criticism, not just from the opposition but from the core of the ruling UMP party, amid allegations of nepotism.
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