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Carla Bruni hopes Sarkozy won’t run for second term in 2012

Is worried about “the balance, happiness and health of my man”

In an interview with Times Online, Carla Bruni opened up about her concerns for the health of her husband, French President Nicholas Sarkozy. “As a wife, I don’t really want him to [run for re-election]. Perhaps I am afraid he will let his health go. Perhaps I wish to live what time we have left in some peace?” The only recorded evidence of Sarkozy’s poor health, according to Times Online, was when he collapsed after jogging last summer. Bruni also lamented the Internet gossip that suggested she and her husband were unfaithful, and called their marriage  “unique, unhoped-for in terms of tenderness, trust, communication and understanding.”

Times Online

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