Former France president Nicolas Sarkozy to run for presidency in 2017

France: Former France president, Nicolas Sarkozy, 61 has formally announced his intentions to run for France presidency again in next year’s presidential elections. In an extract of a book released on his Facebook and Twitter account on Monday, Sarkozy wrote: “I have decided to be a candidate to the 2017 presidential election.” “I’ve felt I had the force to wage this battle at a so tormented time of history.”

Sarkozy who is expected to face touch competition, must first win the party primaries to be organised by the French right in November this year.

Sarkozy lost his presidential re-election bid to Socialist Francois Hollande in 2012.

At the time of his handing over, he said he was leaving politics and would serve his country in a different role.
But in 2014, he made a successful comeback winning the leadership of the conservative party, then known as the UMP.

Sarkozy said he was moved to return to politics by the “hopelessness, anger and lack of future” that he sensed among the French.