Sarkozy says he has no choice but to stand in 2017
14:18, 4 October 2012
PARIS. October 4. KAZINFORM Former President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, gave a strong hint that he would stand again, AGI reported.
"Given the disastrous state in which France risks finding itself in five years time, I will have no choice in 2017," said Sarkozy.
He is yet to make an official announcement and the only information came via the former Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Marie, who spoke to Le Canard Enchaine. Le Marie reported Sarkozy as saying: "The question is not whether I return, but whether I have a choice morally in regards to France not to return. Morally I can not discard the French."