An online petition is calling for France's former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to reimburse the taxpayer following revelations earlier this month that the singer's personal website cost the state €410,000 over a period of two years.
The year 2013 has truly been an annus horribilis for the Bruni-Sarkozy family when it comes to expense scandals.
Following the revelation that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy had breached his spending limits during last year’s presidential election campaign leading to his resignation from France’s highest legal body, the Constitutional Council, the latest scandal to hit the Bruni-Sarkozy clan is certainly something they could do without.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who is currently promoting her new album, ‘Little French Songs’, is now the subject of an online petition protesting the amount of public money injected into the upkeep of her personal website.
The petition, which had 51,187 signatures as of Friday afternoon, was started in reaction to a report published in mid-July from the Court of Auditors, which found that Bruni’s website received a total of €410,000 from the state over two years. The site, it said, was financed by the presidential budget at a cost of €330,000 in 2011 and €80,000 in 2012.
The man who started the petition, Nicolas Bousquet, a Paris-based web developer, describes the cost as “obscene”, estimating that “the site could have been made by anyone for less than €10,000." Full story...
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The year 2013 has truly been an annus horribilis for the Bruni-Sarkozy family when it comes to expense scandals.
Following the revelation that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy had breached his spending limits during last year’s presidential election campaign leading to his resignation from France’s highest legal body, the Constitutional Council, the latest scandal to hit the Bruni-Sarkozy clan is certainly something they could do without.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who is currently promoting her new album, ‘Little French Songs’, is now the subject of an online petition protesting the amount of public money injected into the upkeep of her personal website.
The petition, which had 51,187 signatures as of Friday afternoon, was started in reaction to a report published in mid-July from the Court of Auditors, which found that Bruni’s website received a total of €410,000 from the state over two years. The site, it said, was financed by the presidential budget at a cost of €330,000 in 2011 and €80,000 in 2012.
The man who started the petition, Nicolas Bousquet, a Paris-based web developer, describes the cost as “obscene”, estimating that “the site could have been made by anyone for less than €10,000." Full story...
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