Former French president Jacques Chirac’s family is divided over which candidate should challenge the deeply unpopular François Hollande in the 2017 presidential election, with some backing ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and others a political rival.
The former centre-right president, who makes few public appearances due to hisincreasingly frail health, on Thursday came out in support of his former prime minister and political protégé Alain Juppé.
Chirac’s wife Bernadette, meanwhile, is a big fan of Nicolas Sarkozy's (the feeling, apparently, is mutual), who was Chirac’s interior minister before becoming president in 2007.
Not so her daughter Claude, with whom Sarkozy is rumoured to have had a brief relationship following the untimely death of her first husband in 1993. She has subsequently denied “ever having been Sarkozy’s mistress” from News 24 comments to taglines82@gmail.com
