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Nicolas Sarkozy 'asks Bruni to maintain a low profile'
LAST UPDATE: Saturday, 7 Nov 2009 - 3:58:10 AM
LONDON: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is said to have asked his wife Carla Bruni to maintain a low profile, following complaints that she has been wielding too much political influence over her husband.
According to French media reports, Sarkozy has asked the former supermodel-turned singer to take a back seat amid a growing chorus of disapproval from his own Right-wing allies about her "luvvy" Left-wing influence.
"(Now) her husband has asked her not to intervene on (political) subjects. And this doesn't bother her," British newspaper The Daily Telegraph quoted a friend of Bruni as telling the '20minutes.fr' website.
In fact, members of Sarkozy's UMP party accuse him of being bewitched by Bruni -- recently described by a leading French society magazine as the "new Marie-Antoinette" -- and forgetting his own camp.
"Nicolas is subjugated by a model wife who is richer than him and globally known and who constitutes a war trophy as she comes from the Left," said one. "Is it the fault of his wife? ... he no longer likes his electorate," said another.
Another unnamed member of 54-year-old Sarkozy's party also alleged in French magazine 'l'Express' that the 41-year- old Bruni was responsible for "most of the head of state's woes in this turbulent autumn".
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