Nicolas Sarkozy benefits from a comfortable retirement as well as a well -stocked heritage.
Sentenced definitively on December 18 to a year in prison in the electronic bracelet in the Bismuth affair, for “corruption of magistrate and influence traffic”, Nicolas Sarkozy receives income for his former functions which are regularly pointed out, Especially when the public authorities call on the French to tighten their belts.
As a former President of the Republic (2007-2012), Nicolas Sarkozy receives an annual pension “of an amount equal to that of the gross index processing of a State Councilor in ordinary service” which amounts to approximately 5,200 euros net (6,200 euros gross) each month. This amount applies regardless of the number of mandates made. The endowment is paid at the start of the Elysée, since the age of 57 in the case of Nicolas Sarkozy.
This endowment is cumulative with that of former deputy. Thanks to each of his Mandates of Deputy of Hauts-de-Seine and MEP, Nicolas Sarkozy would combine 6,900 euros additional gross each month, according to the calculations of Capital. It is however more complicated to assess the amount of Nicolas Sarkozy’s retirement pension for his mandate as mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, nineteen years, from April 29, 1983 to June 19, 2002. A function which- de facto – inflates the total amount of retirement, which already turns around 11,400 euros net, at least.
But there is also his activity income, such as his lawyers of lawyers or his speaker fees. According to information from L’ObsNicolas Sarkozy would carry out since the end of his mandate as president, several conferences per year which would each bring him nearly 100,000 euros. He made a dozen per year in 2020. His book “Le Temps des storms”, sold in more than 250,000 copies, would also have brought him between 400,000 and 600,000 euros in copyright.
After Wansquarein 2018, Nicolas Sarkozy would also have received 79,563 euros, via his position as administrator and president of the Committee of the International Strategy of Agreement Hotels, the hotel giant. A sum that corresponds to presence tokens, because the former president attended 83% of the meetings organized this year. In 2017, he even pocketed the sum of 86,355 euros, because present at 93% of the meetings of the board of directors.
As a reminder, each ex-president of the Republic can, if he wishes, keep until the end of his days a bodyguard as well as a car and a office dedicated to his secretariat. Operating costs, rents, are billed each year by the presidents, who are reimbursed in public money, within the framework of the law.
In 2012, Challenges magazine said that Nicolas Sarkozy had a heritage of 2.7 million euros, 650,000 euros more than when the latter had been elected President of the Republic in 2007. His personal heritage had even climbed From 30% in the space of five years, in 2017. This was mainly composed on this date of life insurance contracts (2.58 million euros including 2.3 million from the HSBC bank). It also included collections (autographs, watches, statuettes) for an amount around 100,000 euros.
In his 12-year-old declaration, the former head of the State also mentioned the share of 34% which he held in the company of lawyer CSC, without giving precise value. He assured that he had no real estate and no placement in action.